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1. A writerly thought for the day

Posted on 9/26/2012
Blog: An Englishman in New Jersey (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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WRITERLY THOUGHT OF THE DAY - Fun - compressed

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2. A writerly thought for the day

Posted on 6/9/2012
Blog: An Englishman in New Jersey (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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3. A writerly thought for the day

Posted on 5/3/2012
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4. How I Wrote DOLL BONES

By: Holly Black, on 3/26/2012
Blog: Holly Black, No Longer Dry Like a Martini (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I was planning on doing a word count post for BLACK HEART. For some reason, I thought the post I had done listing the daily word counts was for RED GLOVE when it turned out it was actually already for BLACK HEART, leading me to a lot of frantic searching through my journal for a post I never made. However, if you'd like to look back at the "How I Wrote" post for BLACK HEART, it's here.

Oh well.

Anyway, I realized that I could do a new "How I Wrote" post after all, but it would be for DOLL BONES. DOLL BONES is my new middle grade book, which should come in Spring 2013. It's about three kids -- Zachary, Poppy and Alice -- who go on a journey, despite their own uncertain friendship, to bury a doll that may or may not be haunted. It's creepy and fun and about that period in your life when everyone around you has stopped playing pretend and you realize that maybe you're going to have to stop too. It might be the most difficult thing I've ever written, but I am really proud of it.

You'll see what I mean about it being hard for me to write the book as you scroll through my chart. I gave myself the goal of 500 words a day. After all, in my mind this was a 40K novel, so it seemed like I could get it done very quickly at that pace and that with such a modest goal, surely I could hit it every day...right? Oh, and I was going to take weekends off. Ha!

SEPTEMBER

26 − 600

27 - 400 (400)

28 - (400)

29 - 100 (500) <-- what all those strike-throughs mean is that I kept writing the first pages of the book & then deleting them

30 − 400 (400)

TOTAL SEPT = 400

OCTOBER

1 - WEEKEND

2 - WEEKEND

3 − 1000 (1400)

4 − 500 (2,100)