One of my writing groups put out a call for an April NaNoWriMo/NaNoEdMo. It’s more a group “Put Down Your Goals Here and We’ll Hold You Accountable”, but whatever they want to call it, I’m in! I agreed to fifty hours of editing for Last Call this month. I have my old excel sheet to […]
I’m starting to feel sorry for my critiquers, because my novel is a touch… bipolar. At this point, I’m really frankensteining the thing. There’s a lot of cutting and pasting bits of chapters, and then dashing off 100 or so words to tie it all together. Which is fairly normal for the third draft. The real […]
I’m one of those people who can read a detailed description of an operation, and not have any clue how to do it. Case in point, writing scripts for the web comic. My first attempt, my artist took my first three scripts and made SIX comics. I took her roughs, rewrote my scripts, and tried […]
This is supposed to be a daily blog. As in I write about writing every day. That’s kind of the damn point. But every now and then, I cheat and write one ahead of time. See, I started working on my novels again, and they are a different animal from my novellas. They are complex […]
One week until Werewolves is due to Amazon, and yes, I’m trying to stay calm. So far, I’m succeeding. Truthfully, the story is in really good shape. All I’m doing is clarifying. A word here, a phrase there. I was lucky to have a new reader pick it up, and through it a few weeks […]
Starting to clean up Monsters of Pittsburgh: Werewolves for publication. In honor of that I thought I’d show the opening. *** The slight shuffling of Maureen’s broken foot rolled Daisy Quinn off the cot and onto the cement floor before she woke up. “Twitchy, aren’t you?” Small, white teeth gleamed above Daisy. Maureen smiled too […]
Yes, I have finished Mina and Matty’s stories. I’m not saying they’ll never show back up in my writing, but the story I started with The Hunted is definitely over. I could write stories about their ‘hunts’ forever, but their emotional journey has definitely been wrapped up. Now of course, I have to edit the […]
I’m almost there. The final Mina and Matty story is almost done. I have one last fight scene to write, and then it’s all wrap up. Okay, the action sequences are one paragraph descriptions, that will need to be replaced. But I usually have to rewrite them multiple times anyway. Right now, it’s all about finishing […]
With my two flash stories written for next month, I’m back to finishing up Mina and Matty’s last story. And I have a few options. One of them involves wrapping up everything neatly with a bow, and probably possibly hitting the ‘Overkill’ button. The other leaves a few loose ends that likely only I will notice. I […]
It’s my goal for today. 200 more words to finish the current Matty scene. Then I can switch it over to Mina and give her some action. And I get a treat! Trying to keep my goals small and manageable so that I keep chugging along. While I hate feeling so behind schedule, I do […]
Words That Burn Like Fire 