Writing Week Status After some false starts and a viewpoint change or two, I’m holding steady on my writing word count goal for the week. I’m even a little ahead of the curve at the moment! Being able to delve back into the Jagged Earth Story World lore brought me out of a dry spell […]
Quick update It will be a very short update… last week was spent laid up with the first (and hopefully last) winter ailment, so I completely failed to reach my word count goal. Fortunately, I was in better shape in time for the S3 writing team meeting where I received some excellent feedback and input […]
The Good I hit just over an additional 2000 words for this week. About a third of them ended up in the latest chapter: Interlude the 1st: Downtime. I usually write in the same sequence that I (currently) have the plot. It’s not a hard and fast rule, but then little about writing seems to […]
Ah, New Year’s Resolutions The holidays, family, a new year… I hope that you, faithful readers, had a safe and happy wonderful merry of a time during your particular holiday season. For myself, I took an extended break. It’s not often that the stars, and calendars, align and I can spend some extra time visiting […]
Also known as “I didn’t think about that“, “Well shucks“, or the perennial favorite: “Oops!”. The Amazon Life I’m sure someone, or several someones, will read this and nod knowingly. However, this blog is for the good, the bad, and the ugly things I run into trying to learn to be an author, editor, and […]
So where has D.D Wolf been hiding? What happened to the site updates? Seriously, what’s the deal? Hardware Lately I’ve been working on the best writing process for me. I still use engineering graph paper quite a bit for first cuts, especially for drawings. This works for me at least partially for the classic reasons: […]