Writer Life: Day Sixty

Mostly just for me, but maybe you’ll find it interesting, too.

Shaunta Grimes
The Every Day Novelist
3 min readApr 22, 2019

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Sixty days. Wow. I think I’ll write a post tomorrow about what I learned from 60 straight days of keeping a writer’s log. And why I think you really should try it. Maybe less publicly — unless you’re an over-sharer like me.

This afternoon I watched The Goonies, which is a movie that absolutely inspires pretty much every middle grade story I tell. But it particularly inspires my current work-in-progress. I didn’t really realize until today how much Tessa (my MC) reminds me of Mikey Walsh (one of the The Goonie’s MCs.) Not in a plagiarism way. Just — the inspiration is definitely there.

I made some progress on my second editing pass today. My goal is to get through it by the end of the day Wednesday. I’m going to be okay if I need to stretch that to Friday, but no later.

I’m working on my Hubpages experiment. I wrote about it today.

One thing that interests me is that they have a whole layout for posting recipes. I love to cook and I’ve had…

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Shaunta Grimes
The Every Day Novelist

Learn. Write. Repeat. Visit me at ninjawriters.org. Reach me at shauntagrimes@gmail.com. (My posts may contain affiliate links!)