J.C. Keough

Paranormal Mystery Author

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This Week in The Cauldron August 29 – September 4

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Hey Y’all,

Thank you for joining me for my weekly planning session. First off, a recap of last week.

I planned to write 10,000 words on my first draft of Whining in Wolfland along with working in the yard, meeting friends for a happy hour, and reading. I wrote 11,200 words, so congratulations to me. šŸ¾ No yard work or reading happened. Boo! I’m thrilled about the word count, but I need to pick up the slack in other areas of my life. Now for what I’m mixing up in the cauldron this week:

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What’s Happening in the Cauldron August 22 – 28

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Hey Yā€™all,
Thank you for joining me for my weekly planning session. This is what Iā€™m mixing up in the cauldron this week:

Writing Plans

My goal is 10,000 words this week on what I hope will be a 100,000-word first draft ā€“ give or take 5000 words. I try to write Monday through Saturday, so that will be about 1700 words a day. So, it is entirely doable, if I just sit down and do it. šŸ˜Š

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August 8 – 14, 2022

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Hey Yā€™all,

Thank you for joining me for my weekly planning session. This is what Iā€™m mixing up in the cauldron this week:

Writing Plans

Iā€™m plotting Whining in Wolfland, the next book in THE LARAMIE HARPER CHRONICLES, and Iā€™ll be writing the blurb (book description) to share with you sometime this week. I didnā€™t plot a jot before writing my first novel, Dying in Dallas, because I had the complete story ready and waiting in my noggin.Ā 

Spoiler alert: I did not.

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