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Writing Journal: Y2 Day 16

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...

January 16, 2012 Patrick Hester book, cold as ice, novel, sam kane, samantha kane, wordcount, wordgoal, Writing, writing journal 2 Comments

Writing Journal: Day 288

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...

December 19, 2011 Patrick Hester dayjob, Life, novel, work, Writing, writing journal 3 Comments

Writing Journal: Day 128

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...

June 22, 2011 Patrick Hester Life, novel, sam kane, Writing, writing journal 5 Comments

The End

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...

June 17, 2011 Patrick Hester editing, into the fire, novel, sam kane, samantha kane, Writing, writing my novel 3 Comments

Writing Journal: Day 110

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...

June 4, 2011 Patrick Hester Life, novel, word count, writing journal 0 Comments

Writing Journal: Day 81

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...

May 3, 2011 Patrick Hester novel, sam kane, the writers journey, writers group, Writing, writing journal 2 Comments

Writing Journal: Day 31

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...

March 14, 2011 Patrick Hester Life, novel, short story, Writing, writing my novel, writing short stories 0 Comments

A Book I haven’t read yet: Merlin

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...

April 8, 2010 Patrick Hester Books, fantasy, king arthur, Life, merlin, merllin, novel, prince valiant, reading, robin hood, stephen lawhead, taliesin, zorro 0 Comments

A Book I haven’t read yet: The King’s Peace

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...

April 7, 2010 Patrick Hester Books, fantasy, jo walton, Life, novel, reading, the king's peace, tor 0 Comments

Excerpt from my novel

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...

January 20, 2010 Patrick Hester fantasy, fiction, Life, my life, novel, original, sam kane, scifi, Writing 3 Comments

On writing and my style

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...

April 6, 2009 Patrick Hester Life, my life, novel, sam kane, Writing 0 Comments
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