Day 3 of my Writing Vacation

As promised, though I'm sure you'd rather not see this. Pictures from my view:

One day I'm going to see that stupid rain forest on this island. El Yunque. I've said that for going on 4 years now. However, that trip is not going to be today. For today, I'm diving back into my ghostly hero's head and seeing what fun I can stir up.

Yesterday I managed to keep my sanity and write about 5,000 words. Words I like, mind you. Words I'm keeping. I've never been one for the 1st draft, 5th draft writing, but with this story I'm finding I need to keep moving forward and not revise until I like it. So I'm writing forward, jotting down what I want to fix later, making notes to add in this about Marcus (my manly ghost) or Sydney (my lovely heroine who frees my ghost) or what to take out in terms of secondary characters. I don't want them overrunning the story, and I realized just before I left that they are.

I hear the north east got more snow. Anyone up there still talking to me. :)

Day 1 of my Writing Vacation

Am I writing? Sure! I'm writing! I'm sitting in the sun with my laptop. HONEST! :) OK, maybe not yet. I am sitting in the sun. Just not writing. I posted this blog early so technically I'm not even in front of my computer!

But I will be. Why am I doing this on vacation? It's a writing vacation. One week in Puerto Rico to relax and have uninterrupted time to write. I know I can do this because 2 years ago I wrote the entirety of my werewolf story, Shadow State, during this vacation. It was a wonderful feeling of accomplishment.

While I don't plan to write all 50,000 words I need to write to finish this story, I do plan on a hefty chunk. It's plotted, planned, and scrutinized down to the last scene. Who knows, maybe 50K is possible, I'd settle for 30,000.

Tomorrow: Pictures from my window. Not that it's changed since last year, but since I'm here I should rub it in. There's no snow in PR! I wonder if the Farmer's Almanac has anything to say about that...