93,766. That’s how many words I have written for book #6 in the Oliver & Jack series, which is entitled In London Towne. The words are written from Oliver’s point of view, which is usually how I write a book, from one POV all the way through, and then all the way through again, from […]
Hit 100,000 Word Today on Book Five
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 […]
Call Me Sentimental
While tumbling through Tumblr (a bad habit that I cannot seem to rid myself of), I sometimes come across items that are useful (such as recipes), or valuable (such as the way to search for a word’s origin), and, if I’m lucky, something that reminds me what it means to be human. Some might say […]
Working on Nano
This time around, for NaNo 2015, I’m like the slow starter in a horse race. My excuse is a Very Bad Cold, the kind my dad used to say needed lots of bed rest, ice cream, soda, and comic books. Well, I’m doing all of that, and seem to be getting better, though the comic […]
Rhode Hill House
Currently, my editor has Book #2 in the Oliver & Jack series, and I thought it might be fun to share some of the research that I did for that book, mostly with fun pictures or maps. Nothing tedious that a reader might have to slog through because, as I have often been told, not […]
Crossing the Terminator Into Night
Around Day 8 of NaNoWriMo in November of 2014, I had the worst sense of exhaustion, and my whole body, including every writerly molecule that I possessed, wanted to to just stop writing. It wasn’t as though I’d run out of words, because there will always be more. But it was as if my old, […]