Yes, yes, the day has arrived! I finally hit 100K on book #5!!! Â Actually, it’s 100,125 words, but that’s because Jack started drinking gin and things got out of hand. The current schedule for this book is as follows. I write my fingers to the bone, doing 3,000 words a day until June 31. That’ll […]
Edits and Read-Through for Out In The World
Books don’t write themselves, as anybody could tell you. While writing a book, I look more like this: Than this: But what might not get as often a mention is that books also do not edit themselves. For that you need, at the very least, a beta-reader (mine is the unrivaled talent of Wendy Rathbone), […]
A Less Well-Mannered Outline
With another NaNoWriMo beneath my belt I am pleased to announce that the next book in my Oliver & Jack series entitled Oliver & Jack: Out In The World, is 73K words done; I’ve written Oliver’s point of view in those words, because, as I determined early on, this particular story was about what happens to […]
NaNoWriMo 2015 Begins!
I’m doing NaNoWriMo for 2015, as the last three NaNos that I did (NaNoWrimo 2104, and two NaNo Camps in 2014) have proven to be incredibly helpful in getting the words from my head and onto the paper. I did not want to take that experience for granted, so I spent the last few weeks […]
Cups Song in Galic
So I finished Camp NaNoWriMo (the April version of NaNoWriMo, which happens in November) in fine style with a total of 60,233 words. This is well over the goal of 50K. And to what do I owe this miracle? Well, to start with I had a hand-written outline that I’d revised three times until everything […]
Mean Tom Sawyer
So, my writing friend and fellow camper Wendy has told me that before she begins a story, she carries around in her head the first line or so. As I understand it, this line repeats itself until she actually starts writing the story down. I could relate to this because something similar happens to me. […]