Okay, it’s been a bit more than a month since the last update. Yeah, I’ve been busy, but this is the danged 2010’s right? No excuses for not frittering away my time here. Anyway, the news is that I’ve now completed the second draft of the baseball book, which, BTW, is now officially titled “See […]
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Draft Done!
Call it a Ron-only Novel Dare. Call it a delayed NaNoWriMo. Call it what you will, but at the end of the day what I’ve actually got is a complete first draft novel in a total of 31 days–probably some 55K words. Pretty danged cool. I sat down to write this baseball-ish fantasy on November […]
Read More ...A Wave of Words
Yeah, I know. It’s been awhile. But don’t worry…I’ve not fallen by the wayside. Not too far, anyway. I should start this by saying out loud that I had no intention of doing anything like a NANOWRIMO. I was in the middle of this science fiction thing, you see? That science fiction thing I’ve been […]
Read More ...The Book is Winning the Battle
I am clearly at the stage of writing on this book where the book feels like a better book than I am a writer. This is not unusual, of course. I’ve been here before. But this one feels particularly strong because the book’s structure is … ambitious. Recently I had lunch with friend and fellow […]
Read More ...Back at the Dig
So I’ve been slowly-but-surely working on this new book of mine. It’s a difficult little puzzle for me–not quite a classic storyline. I have no idea if it’s commercial or not-commercial or what. All I know is that it’s an interesting puzzle, and it’s beginning to take some sort of shape that I kind of […]
Read More ...Midnight
I’ve titled this last one “Midnight at River’s Edge.” It’s quite short, but seems to work for me. Now we get to see if it works for anyone else. [grin]
Read More ...A Quiet Walk
I’ve been doing a lot of reading and listening about the information overload that human beings are suffering in modern days. We’re reading on phones and e-readers in snippets of times where we were in downtime before, or we’re listening to iPods, or staring at TV screens while we’re working out–activities that were once the […]
Read More ...Getting it Together
This morning I set my iTunes to Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick and set out to plot out the rest of this book I’ve been fiddling with. First, let me say that Tull’s TaaB is a great writing background for me. It’s full of rich, intertwining musical riffs without too much in the way […]
Read More ...It Works!
If progress is a measure of how well taking the “obvious direction” is working, I would say it’s pretty good. I managed 1,000 new words in an hour this morning, my best output in well over a week.
Read More ...Conversations With Story
I’ve been avoiding the obvious for the past couple days. By this I mean that I’ve been working on this book, and struggling to get what I’ve been considering The Last Big Piece of the puzzle to fall. (Please note, that when I say “Last Big Piece”, what I really mean is “Latest Barrier Keeping […]
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