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! Last month, I finished the first draft of my new novel. I like to give it about a month to put some distance between myself and the story, so I can come back to it with fresh eyes. But I didn’t want to be sitting, doing …
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…
Happy Sunday, Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend. So I feel like I’m the absolutely last person in the world qualified to talk about this, but I did say in the beginning that this blog is sometimes as much for me as it is for you. This is one of those times. Lately, days …
Happy Friday Everyone!! We made it! I don’t mind saying that this week has been a bit of a train wreck. I’m feeling self-induced pressure to produce. It’s not like I haven’t been working, but it’s been a struggle. And I really need to work on planning and balancing things. And I’m still all over …
Happy Sunday (what’s left of it) Everyone!. I hope you enjoyed the weekend. So here we are, at 8:30 in the evening. In an ideal world, I’d have been reading for a half hour already and looking forward to another 15-20 minutes, before getting ready to hit the sack, so I can get up at …
Happy Sunday, Everyone! I hope you’re all enjoying the weekend! If you’ll recall, At the beginning of September I was going to make a serious push to get to the end of the first draft of my current project. I figured that it would take me another Thirty-Thousand words to get there. My Math was wrong. …