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My writing process has changed. I used to be a plotter, but lately, I find that trying to outline makes everything grind to a halt. So I’m embracing my organic writing abilities. I’m loving the discovery process–getting to know my characters, learning what makes them tick, putting them in situations new to me (and them) and watching them react.

So last night, I started working on a new novella. Today, I wrote 1,150 words and in the process, learned that my heroine performed a heroic act that she can’t escape, and that her father, who’s six feet under, still haunts her. (Not in a paranormal kind of way, despite my tendency to write in that genre.)

The hero remains veiled to me, with the exception of one careless remark he made to the heroine that gives me a hint about how his background is going to conflict with the situation in which she finds herself.

Word count total: 1,441 words (8% of projected 18,000 words)

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