Hello friends. I return, as promised, after a week away for a writing retreat. I was with the same group of people last year for a similar weekend. We were at a different location this year and had an extra day, but […]
An important milestone happened yesterday – I hit the halfway point in editing my novel. When I checked my word count, I randomly decided to see how many words I had remaining, and I was almost exactly at the midpoint. The work […]
It’s been a pretty quiet week, writing-wise, with the usual struggles and victories of motivation and editing. Which is to say that some days I didn’t edit, but then other days I did, and so the work continues. One thing I’ve decided […]
Obviously, it’s not actually Groundhog Day. I’m a bit late on that if we want to be technical. But I’m feeling like it’s Groundhog Day in the movie sense, in that we’ve gotten to the end of February and here I am […]
As I worked through my edits this week, some of the feedback one of my alpha readers included stopped me dead in my editing session. It was a point about my main characters; namely that they had interesting personalities and characterizations, but […]
Today I had the pleasure of engaging in some gaming of the D&D variety with some of my writing friends. For anyone not familiar, essentially one person is the story teller, directing the players through a set of scenarios, where they try […]
I’m feeling like the proverbial broken record today. Every week is a refrain of “still editing, but it’s going pretty well.” This week is no different. I’m still editing and it’s still going pretty well. I suspect that next week I’ll still […]
I’m happy to say that it’s been another decent week for productivity. I did manage to get some editing done most days, though my daily word counts have been a bit lower. That’s to be expected because I’m currently doing a full […]
I’ve written a lot in the last year about trying to achieve consistency in my editing and the mental health struggles that complicate the process. Thanks to a great convention experience in October and an editing reboot in November with NaNoWriMo, I […]
My whole life, I’ve never been able to leave an idea alone. You give my brain a scenario and on some level I’m writing a story for it. Not necessarily a fantastical one – I just need to run everything to a […]