No More Lies update and some general thoughts on editing and revising
(And, man, am I good at short and pithy titles, or what?) At the end of last July when I finished No More Lies I honestly expected it to be ready to release by now. Some of the delay is, I freely admit, that I hate editing and revising and therefore always put it off […]
Progress Report
Instead of listing all my works-in-progress and getting depressed by how many I haven’t worked on in ages, this year I am instead updating how far I’ve come on the to do list I posted at the beginning of the year . . . with new items being added because I’m great at making plans, but […]
Progress Report
Instead of listing all my works-in-progress and getting depressed by how many I haven’t worked on in ages, this year I am instead updating how far I’ve come on the to do list I posted at the beginning of the year. With new items being added because I’m great at making plans, but suck at sticking to […]
Kavaliro Cousins Book Two Delayed Indefinitely
When I finished Crown of Eldrete, I immediately started the sequel, like the next day “immediately”. Twelve thousand words into it, I realized I’d started in the wrong spot and needed to cut the first ten thousand words. That was painful. Since then, nearly two years ago, I haven’t been able to get any idea […]
Progress report
Instead of listing all my works-in-progress and getting depressed by how many I haven’t worked on in ages, this year I will instead be updating how far I’ve come on the to do list I posted at the beginning of the year. With new items being added, because I’m great at making plans, but suck at […]
Intertwined Lives Excerpt and Update
This was supposed to be my WIP list post, but since all I’ve worked on since the last one is Intertwined Lives that seemed kind of daft to bother with. Intertwined Lives is now 34,442 words. I’m two weeks into a plot that will cover two years. I’m pretty sure I’m looking at a George R. R. […]
Why I failed Nanowrimo, and how I’ll be doing things going forward
I failed at Nanowrimo this year, but I’m okay with this. There are reasons I could have failed that I wouldn’t be okay with, things that would boil down to just laziness, but that wasn’t the case this time. True, there may have been a day or two in there where I played around on […]
NaNoWriMo progress and WIP update, November edition
NaNoWriMo for me this year is more about developing a regular writing routine that about reaching 50k words. That said, I’ve not been doing remarkably well at achieving either goal due to starting the month with a nasty cold that turned into a minor sinus infection. Fuck you, germs. I’ve gotten 9885 words, a third […]
What bad writing advice really means
For some reason there’s not a reblog or repost or anything like that button on this awesome post, so you’ll have to click the link to read it. Trust me, if you’re an author or wannabe author, you want to click this: http://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/bad-writing-advice-explained/