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The Accountability Factor

Posted on September 10, 2020March 5, 2021 by Jami Fairleigh

I'm going to get it together. I am. Starting today. If you guys could read my diary you'd roll your eyes at how often I've said that over my lifetime. The sentiment is usually made with regards to my diet,...Read More

One Hundred Days of Accountability Completed

Posted on May 7, 2019September 11, 2020 by Jami Fairleigh

Done. 'Nough said? I am astounded at what I accomplished in a 100 day period, with regards to my writing. As a recap, here's my review of the first twenty days, Day 40 of 100, Day 60 of 100, and...Read More

Eighty Days of Accountability

Posted on April 17, 2019September 11, 2020 by Jami Fairleigh

[caption id="attachment_803" align="alignleft" width="240"] A peek-a-boo view from halfway up the mountain. The views from the summit are going to be outstanding.[/caption] When you post daily on the #100DaysofWriting Challenge, you don't always "see" how much progress you've really made....Read More

Sixty Days of Accountability

Posted on March 27, 2019September 11, 2020 by Jami Fairleigh

Hey there, another #100DaysofWriting challenge check-in. It's now been 60 days of continuous effort on my book. During this past 20 days, I've managed to finish the third draft rewrite and am now reading the draft and making notes for...Read More

Forty Days of Accountability

Posted on March 7, 2019October 15, 2021 by Jami Fairleigh

I can't believe it's been 40 days already of my #100DaysofWriting challenge. I'm halfway through Chapter 22 of my book rewrite. In the past 40 days, I've finished making notes on the third draft and begun rewriting the entire thing...Read More

100 Days of Accountability To Come

Posted on February 16, 2019September 11, 2020 by Jami Fairleigh

For the past year, I've been mired in the misery of editing my book, or as the Twitter community likes to say, I #amediting. To break out of the miasma of editing despair, I decided to change tactics and Story...Read More

The Remarkable reMarkable

Posted on January 29, 2019January 26, 2021 by Jami Fairleigh

After typing "The End" for the first time, I sent the first draft of my book to Staples to have it printed. Hey, at over 110,000 words, it was way too much to try to squeeze out of our old...Read More

100 Days of…?

Posted on January 26, 2019September 10, 2020 by Jami Fairleigh

If you haven't been living under a rock, you've seen a number of your friends, peers, or family attempt a 100-day challenge. Some folks are good at it and others start strong and then...disappear? I got curious today about where...Read More

Revision Catharsis

Posted on January 13, 2019 by Jami Fairleigh

I'm having revision catharsis. I don't know if that's a thing in the real world but after a year of struggling to edit my novel I feel like I'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, or...Read More

How the Story Grid Editing Method Almost Killed My Book

Posted on January 6, 2019January 13, 2019 by Jami Fairleigh

Last year, I decided that Editing is the worst part of writing. Writing 120,000 words into a believable tale took 1-3 hours a day for 80 days. Editing the same book took all year. Oh, wait, no, it's still not...Read More

Happy New Year?

Posted on January 2, 2019January 13, 2019 by Jami Fairleigh

So...it's been a while. To start the New Year right, I decided to write a quick "Holiday Letter" type of post to catch you up on what happened last year. So I logged into my site (it took a minute...Read More

Writing Advice from T.J. Allen

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Jami Fairleigh

There's a lot of advice for writers out there, but much of it is magnanimously handed down from writers standing on the pinnacle of success. While I appreciate books such as Stephen King's On Writing and Anne Lamott's Bird by...Read More