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A. Christine is a Texas writer who enjoys fantasy, horror, and the supernatural, whether reading, writing, or watching. She graduated from Trinity University with a major in English. When she isn't writing, she spends her time making jewelry and desserts (not at the same time), singing, going to school to become a certified court reporter, and poking philosophical conundrums with sharp sticks.
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Tag Archives: young adult
Week 4: Femme Fighting (NaNo2013 Edition) COMPLETE
Word count: 76,316 words Words written since Week 3: 19,050 words So, WH is officially finished! At least as far as the first draft goes. And the award for longest, sloppiest denouement goes to… Seriously, my ending to the nightmare … Continue reading
Posted in Speculative, Work in Progress, Writing, Young Adult
Tagged complete, femme fighting, fiction, nanowrimo, novel, speculative, wip, writing, young adult
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Week 3: Femme Fighting (NaNo2013 Edition)
Word count: 57,266 words Words written since Week 2: 26,251 words That “words written since” is actually larger, because I deleted the first 4-some-thousand words that I had whited out for NaNo word count. It’s hard to believe that I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged femme fighting, fiction, nanowrimo, novel, speculative, wip, writing, young adult
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NaNo2013 K.O.
Just dropped in to say that at 1:49 a.m. this morning, I crossed the 50k-word line. I was technically only supposed to reach 49k words, but I decided why not go all the way. At one point, the NaNo stats … Continue reading
Posted in Speculative, Work in Progress, Writing, Young Adult
Tagged femme fighting, fiction, nanowrimo, speculative, winner, wip, writing, young adult
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Week 2: Femme Fighting (NaNo2013 Edition)
Word count: 31,015 words Words written since Week 1: 15,952 words That “words written since” number should go up by next week, since Week 1 was actually four days instead of a whole week. Also, I have an Overnight of … Continue reading
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Week 1: Femme Fighting (NaNo2013 Edition)
Word count: 15,063 words And technically, that Week 1 started after midnight on Nov. 1 with our local NaNo group’s Kick-Off Party at IHOP. Don’t get too excited about how many words that is. All 4k words I wrote at … Continue reading
Posted in Speculative, Work in Progress, Writing, Young Adult
Tagged femme fighting, fiction, mma, nanowrimo, novel, wip, writing, YA, young adult
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This and That
The second pass of edits for the nightmare novel took longer than expected, but that’s because I did a third pass as well. The second pass was for the corrections that a psychologist consultant gave me on some scenes (I … Continue reading
Posted in Editing, Horror, Supernatural, Young Adult
Tagged editing, horror, nightmare, novel, planning, schedule, synopsis, YA, young adult
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I would never do that…
The big trend, especially in YA fiction, is first-person present. I’m resolutely a third-person past kind of writer, although I’m wondering whether a YA novel bouncing around in my head might prefer first-person present. I much prefer my usual, but … Continue reading
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Tagged first-person, problem, reading, third-person, writer, writing, YA, young adult
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Nightmare Novel Editing: Week 2 FINISHED
Pages edited: 308/308 Number of words cut: 3,262 words Favorite mistake: “She let herself be led into the black temple, into the room with the dais, which was where the Night Mare led her.” Honestly, that line still cracks me … Continue reading
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Tagged editing, finished, horror, nightmare, novel, young adult
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Nightmare Week 3
Word count since Week 1: 15,729 30787 / 100000 words. 31% done! The novel is moving apace, so fast it’s almost scary. I keep having to remind myself that I’m mostly just retyping and tweaking a lot of it rather … Continue reading
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Tagged nightmare, novel, wip, writing, young adult
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Nightmare Week 1
15058 / 100000 words. 15% done! Not quite a long enough break, didn’t get to do everything that I felt I needed to, but I felt like if I waited any longer to start my nightmare novel, I either … Continue reading
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Tagged horror, nightmare, novel, wip, young adult
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