The First Book I hope that I’m not that unusual in having second thoughts. The most frustrating second thought is finding better ways to say what I wanted to say in the first book! And finding mistakes in the first book, but that’s relatively easy to fix thanks to the magic of online publishing. Perhaps […]
Groovy As in “back in the groove” at least temporarily. Completed about 1800 words gross working on the Prologue/Chapter 1. I’m not even considering what my net word count might be. For now, it’s enough just to get back to consistently writing. The more I write into it, the more it’s beginning to beef up […]
Taking Care of Business It’s been a busy time lately on all fronts except keeping up with writing. During the past few months, I’ve been on travel for business, family and a few jaunts to events closer to home. As you may have gathered from earlier posts, family is very important to me, so helping […]
As in “I took the plunge”… … and submitted Orchids Ablaze to an online writing contest. I almost didn’t post about it at all! I thought I might wait to see how it turned out first. It was somewhat a leap of faith for me being my first effort, especially because I’m going to have […]
Count After several starts and stops, and a few dozen bad words, the first cut of chapter 2 is complete! It’s currently in the 1900 word range. I’m concentrating more on narrative and action than description, so that will likely increase. After Orchids Ablaze it feels like a very long chapter! I even pulled out […]
Exercises One of the lessons that I’ve read and heard about writing is the need to use only the words necessary. One of my early English teachers always taught that there is one, exact, word that precisely expresses what the writer intends to convey for any specific purpose. Part of that challenge is, naturally, the […]