This is the feed for my blog. I update the blog... occasionally? What's a phrase for "Not Terribly Frequently" that makes me sound busy rather than lazy? "When the mood strikes?", "As time allows?", "Every fortnight?" Hmmm.
I update the blog as much as I can. I'm writing, you know.
I was tagged in a variation of The Lucky7 and 777 Memes by Heidi Ruby Miller. She’s awesome. Check out her response to the meme for Red Plague. Yes, we have a whole ‘Red’ theme happening today. THE RULES: 1. Go to the 7th line…
Feels weird not to have the book to work on every day. To be honest I’ve missed that daily productivity. I’ve been catching up with my poetry and short story submissions over the last week or so. I’m gathering notes for when I attack the book…
It’s Alive! I’ve put the last few hundred words down and I’m officially calling the first draft done! It needs a ton of work in the second draft, but the first is done. I hit 81,428 words yesterday and slowly backed away from the laptop. I’m…
Good day and welcome to Thursday. I’ve been off the radar for a number of weeks and I assure you I’ve kept myself busy the whole time. Last weekend was the glorious Naked Nowhere writing retreat. I just made the name up because of artistic…
I’m closing in on the end of my first draft of the book. I’m at about 65,000 words of what I’m planning to be an 80,000 to 85,000 word novel. You know what that means? That’s right. It’s time to prematurely start making my list…
I really wanted to be done by now. I planned on being done by now. But it didn’t happen. I know I’m whining a lot about how bad work was recently, but it really was a rough couple of months. I got almost zero writing…
Excellent post about developing/creating characters over at the Guide to Literary Agents. Footnotes: 5 Articles About Creating Characters has some great links to help make your hero a little more real. “First, find out what your hero wants. Then just follow him.” Awesome. I realized…
My wife’s Valentine’s Day gift to me? The freedom to go to a coffee shop today and write for a few hours. Awww. What a great present! It’s just my size too! I’ve managed to catch up on my fiction and poetry story submissions and…
Got my contributor’s copys of the new issue of A Thousand Faces. I always enjoy that magazine (even when I’m not in it!) and they did a great job with this issue as well. It’s full of superhero goodness. I had a weird switcharoo with…
Ah yes, progress on the work in progress is… progressing. I’m so close to the halfway mark I can taste it. And it tastes like cookies. Warm, fresh-from-the oven chocolate chip, macadamia nut, double fudge cookies. What was I talking about? Writing? Really? Ok. Things…
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