Good, but tentative progress. I’m up to a not startling 2,543 words total (which means I’ve added about 1500 so far today), but I’ve used those words to explore three of the four main characters of the book. Two of them I have down pretty well, and the third is about half-and-half fleshed in–maybe 75%. […]
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Novel Dare – Day 2/3
Okay, I think I ‘m actually ready to start now. This month’s novel is truly just that–a novel in a month, all the way from concept to end. I honestly had no idea what I was going to write when I sat down on Monday morning. I started with only a very vague notion that […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 1
Lisa Silverthorne and I are doing a Novel Dare during NanoWriMo. We were originally going to do a Dre in October, but she got caught up in work issues that pushed it back, and as luck and synchronicity would have it, I got caught in work issues later in October that made this decision work […]
Read More ...Steady Work
It was a strange weekend–quiet, but between writing, work, the health club, and a few personal things it felt like it was very busy. Such is life, though. Time flies. I picked up another ten pages on episode five this morning. I’ve got one more kink to work out, then I think the rest is […]
Read More ...Restructuring, and the Return of the Count
I spent this morning’s writing time completing the basic restructuring of episode five based on my learnings of the past couple days. I definintely think the flow in the first third of the piece works better, though I think I have some more fine-tuning to do in the bottom third. This one’s turning out to […]
Read More ...Two Days Reading
If you’re following this fairly sporadic blog, you know that I’m working on separating a pair of novels into their novella-length components. I’m doing this because they breathe better this way (that’s how they were originally envisioned), and because some editorial feedback has suggested the work is good at its core. I’ve made it to […]
Read More ...A Little Frustrating
That’s what it is when you’re right on the edge of a major discovery on a story … and it’s time to go to work. Perhaps lunchtime. Or, there’s always tomorrow. Grr.
Read More ...Elric Meets Indiana Jones
I’m moving more fully into what was once “book two” of the series I’m working on, but which will now be episodes 5-7 (or maybe 8 ) of the series I’m tentatively thinking of as “The Lords of Existence.” The first four episodes are made of elements that were once the novel “Glamour of the […]
Read More ...A Morning … uh … Not Writing
I spent the morning fiddling around with the idea of putting a new cover on my baseball fantasy novel “See the PEBA on $25 a Day.” I’m planning on running a baseball playoff special on it, so a new cover might be nice. The good news is that I’ve found something I would like to […]
Read More ...Nearing “The End”
The cold I caught in mid-WorldCon is still hanging on, but at least this weekend I finally felt human (there you go, Josh). Lisa was off in the Great North doing some dress shopping for Brigid, so this meant I had the house to myself. Thursday night was filled with work, but Friday night through […]
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