When I started these posts, I thought I’d just write about writing, but somewhere along the way, I started thinking I had to be more pointery (as in, I needed to have a point), or insightful or something. When you get there in your head...
I haven’t been keeping up with the writing journal lately. This is due mostly to not knowing what to say. Or maybe not having anything to talk about. Sam Kane books 1 & 2 are being shopped by The Agent, which takes time, so...
It’s been a long time since my last Writing Journal (50 days). I’ve started and stopped several new journal posts in that time. I can make excuses about why I haven’t journaled, including the whole unemployment thing, but...
Last time, I mentioned that I was going into edit/revision mode for Sam Kane Book 2, which I did. I also sent out a ton of resumes, hit a job fair, recorded some podcasts – but we’re here to talk about the writing, so let’s get...
Critique Group I continue to be amazed by this group of people. Once upon a time, I heard that police canvass an area after a crime, asking every single witness to describe what they saw because each person sees something different. They then...
So, work progresses. The sidebar meter for ‘Into the Fire’, the rewrite of the novel, jumped forward from 26k to 29k, which is good. Unfortunately, I forgot to reset my weekly session target widget in Scrivener on Monday, so my...
What does your writing folder look like? By ‘writing folder’, I mean whatever you use to organize your writing. It can be paper books or pads, typed pages, old floppy discs, iomega zip discs, cd’s, dvd’s – even tape...
Sigh. Well, the word count widget in the sidebar finally advanced. Took a leap forward is more accurate. From 15k to 21k on Into the Fire. It hadn’t moved in a while and that’s due to stupidity on my part and a setting in...
First up – be aware that I won’t be doing these journal posts every day, hence the jump in days from 1 to 4. That’ll keep me on my toes mathwise… Second, I haven’t written a word of fiction since my 4000 word mega...
I’m going to try a new thing – keeping a journal here on the blog about my writing. You may ask yourself – how will this be any different from what you normally do here? Well – I’ll be concentrating solely on the...
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