Today has been a day for just managing to try and pick things up a little. That goes both for the real life and the writing life. Real life terms, I’ve been getting caught up on laundry, playing with my birds (literally), putting out the recycling, and once I’m done with this post I’ll be … More Housekeeping
I’m back from camp training and am using a bit of the rest time to work on the sequel. I’ve been super fortunate this time to be working with a de facto editor who is really helping me tighten up this manuscript. Within days of sending him the second draft he responded with a variety … More Still Editing and Still Planning
A few days ago I wrote about how I wanted to finish my second draft by tonight. There are still a few hours left in tonight and all things are possible. But, to be honest, it does seem rather unlikely. I suppose I could chalk it up to poor planning. I really liked the sound … More About that Goal
Earlier this week I looked at my calendar and decided something. After too long of working on it, I aim to finish the second draft of my second novel by June 21st. Although, just now as I right this I have an urge to make it June 22nd. Hmm. Let’s put that to the side … More Unannounced Goal
Yesterday I wrote a little about my feelings on editing. The soul crushing task that is editing. Today was back to the grindstone and trying to clean up the beautiful mess that is my sequel. There was a lot of just polishing over rough edges. A majority was just that. Smoothing and polishing and hoping … More Editing Leads to Writing
My Saturdays are kind of broken. They start with an early morning of helping to get my son ready for daycare. Even though it is a weekend I try and approach Saturday like it is at least a half day of work and even a half day is impossible with the little guy around. So … More Joy of Editing
I’m trying hard to change, but what I’m trying to change might seem like a minor thing. For too long now I’ve been fairly persistent in checking my stats. Several times an hour I’ll find myself pulling out my phone just to see if people are reading my posts. Sure, in the first hour after … More Recovering Stat Junky
Just like the title of this post suggests, today was a fairly quiet day. I played with my son, edited my sequel, ate lunch with the Mrs. Really just a low key kind of day. The most shocking part of it was when my sweet little parrot bit my nose just hard enough to make my … More Quiet Sunday
I started this blog 5 years ago partly as a means to keep from being bored at work. I would type out a few stories while putting on a serious face. My hope was that no one on the office would figure out I was writing tales of fantasy and sci-fi. No one ever did. … More 500th Post
I started writing for a very simple reason. I like writing. I enjoy cultivating ideas and expanding my little stories. I like populating worlds and creating bizarre situations. My writings were originally kept in a a notebook. Actually several half filled notebooks. Then I moved on to a blog that was intentionally hard to find. … More Trying at Marketing Me
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