November is National Novel Writing Month! That means that my plans are a little different than they are for most months. Zero Draft – Hollywood Divine This is my planned project for NaNoWriMo. The word count to win NaNo is 50,000 but I’m shooting for 65,000. That will hopefully mean less I have to add during […]
Refilling the Well
Words and the writing of them are definitely one expression of creativity. There are countless numbers of others. When you concentrate on one form of expression constantly, sooner or later, the well runs dry for a bit and it’s time to refill it. This is one of the ways I try to keep the well […]
August 2015 Wrapup
Things started to go off the rails in August – and didn’t do any writing in September (so no planning or update posts for that month) – I’m only now getting things back on track! Zero Draft – Clockwork Empire I only managed about 22,000 words on Clockwork Empire. There was a lot more background and […]
October 2015
The month is almost over, but I thought I’d start getting myself back in the habit. I’ve had to rearrange things a bit, since September was a complete wash, and several days were taken up by attending the Sirens Conference in Denver. Zero Draft – Finish Clockwork Empire Tarot is on hold until after NaNo – […]
July 2015 Wrapup
August and September were a little hectic – I meant to update this quite a while ago. In any case, here’s the late, unlamented July 2015 Wrapup. LOL. I finished the revision of the Shadows and Secrets zero draft and sent it out to a few beta readers. That was the easiest, and smoothest, part […]
August 2015
Here are my planned projects for August – Zero draft and revision work in the same month is probably ambitious, but I have a request for the revision and I want to work on something new too. Zero Drafts Clockwork Empire – 80,000-90,000 Revisions Dark and Light – 45,000 of 90,000 Flash Fiction/Short Stories None […]