The weekend was good to me. 3400 words one day, 4300 the next. Not too shabby. When I started writing Cold as Ice, the story flowed really well. I wrote the first part fairly quickly before my mind, racing ahead, forced me to skip a pivotal...
So. The holidays have brought with them a whole new kind of stress and distraction. My carefully crafted plans for writing have fallen apart under the barrage of demands on my time. Whenever I sit down to write, I find myself having to refresh...
You know, writing anything is a huge accomplishment. Finishing a novel – it’s huge, don’t get me wrong, but there’s the high, and then the low. I talked a little bit about this when I wrote the post about finishing, but I...
Are there any two words more sweeter in the writers vocabulary? At 92,705 words, I’m done. The novel rewrite is complete. I have poured my soul out onto the digital page for the last six months, and all the hard work, sweat and tears...
Well. Where to begin. When last we chatted, I was at a respectable 56K on the novel rewrite (Sam Kane: Into the Fire). As of this writing, I am now at 73K words – that means I’ve done 17,000 words in the last 10 days. How’s...
Wow. What a weekend. The last Saturday of every month is Writers Group. I have mentioned this before. This is a fantastic group of people (I think I’ve mentioned that before as well), from a diverse section of genre writing ranging from...
Well, after sending the first 50 pages of my novel off to @TyBarbary for beta reading, my word count dropped by about a hundred words. Ah well, that’s okay – plenty more where those came from. I did that to prep for critique group at...
This week I’m talking about books that I’ve shelled out the cash for, but haven’t yet cracked open to read. Let’s talk about: Merlin Ok, so – if you’ve been hanging out here for a while, reading my stuff, maybe...
I never want to get bored. To that end, I buy a lot of books. I can’t walk into a bookstore and walk out empty handed. I think it’s genetic. This means that I have a lot of unread books lying around. This week, I’m going to...
As you probably know by now, I’ve written a novel. I’m working on the second draft right now. The gist: young woman living her life like any other normal person, suddenly finds herself neck deep in a mess that involves magic and a...
Had a writing weekend. It was planned, but the snow helped confirm it (stayed in, made chili). Basically, during the week I don’t always have time to work on my creative writing other than an hour or two each night before bed, so I try to...
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