Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend. Today (OK, yesterday) marked the fourth full week of editing the current WIP: JADE MOON WANING. For those of you that might be hopping on with this post, you can find Week 1 here. This week, Wednesday, actually, saw the end of the “Read it Out …
Happy Friday Everyone!!! We Made it! This has been the first week of my End of the Year Vacation!!! And I’ve got to say that it’s been pretty damned productive, despite myself. I finished my first Read it Out Loud editing pass on JADE MOON WANING. I knocked out almost 100 pages on Wednesday to …
Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend. Today (OK, yesterday) marked the third full week of editing the current WIP: JADE MOON WANING. For those of you that might be hopping on with this post, you can find Week 1 here. I have read aloud, editing along the way, 375 pages. The book, …
Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend. Today (OK, yesterday) marked the first full week of editing the current WIP: JADE MOON WANING. For those of you that might be hopping on with this post, you can find Week 1 here. I have read aloud, editing along the way, 173 pages. The book, …
Happy Friday Everyone!!! We Made it! Gods, it’s been a long week… I notice that this is starting to become a thing I say here pretty often. I’m not sure what it is, what confluence of life, and day job, etc. is making things so heavy at this time, but there it is. Worse, I …
Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend. This Saturday (OK, yesterday) I started the first editing pass on the current WIP: Jade Moon Waning. After letting it sit for a month, I knew I was ready to begin edits, when the story would start to pop into my head, unbidden. There isn’t much …
Happy Sunday, Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend! If you hang around with writers for a long enough time, chances are you’ll hear one of us talk about refilling the Creative Well. But what are we talking about, really? From here on out, the usual caveat applies: What follows are my thoughts on the …
Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend. I know that some of you are participating in NaNoWriMo (For those of you that don’t know: That stands for National Novel Writing Month), and some of you aren’t. And that’s ok, this post is for you too. And, among those of you that are participating, …
Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend. So you’ve been working on the First Draft of a novel. If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent the better part of a year –at least–on the project and you’ve just gotten to write the two best words ever: The End. What happens next? That what …
One Hundred thirteen thousand, five hundred, and fifty nine words. In just under a year. That’s my first draft done for Jade Moon Waning. And I’m going to bed…