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Approaching two-thirds done
I suppose reading posts about my word count isn’t very thrilling. Using “word count” doesn’t really capture any sense of actual progress anyway, it’s like a fuel gauge, it shows how far I’ve come, but it says nothing about the … Continue reading
Progress report – 30K
That’s another significant milestone. Could be 1/3 of the way there. Maybe a little less. But 90K words would work, if the story works in that few. We’ll see. The scenes I worked on today were all difficult ones for … Continue reading
Moving forward
Over 13,000 words. Not quite a thousand words tonight, but still making progress. I feel like I’ve got the story to the point that I can follow the outline and write scenes one after another. Now it’s just a matter … Continue reading
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Significant milestone on “Mountain Home.”
I hit 10,000 words tonight. That’s probably less than a tenth of the final word count of a sci-fi book, but it’s significant. I wrote over 2,500 of those words tonight. And they’re pretty good words. I am starting to … Continue reading
Setting as Character
Link to my latest Fictorians blog post.
My new “WIP” or Work In Progress
You hear authors talk a lot about their “WIP” which is shorthand for “Work in Progress” and describes that story out of the hundreds floating around in various stages of incompletion which the author currently considers to be the one … Continue reading
My first official Fictorians post
I’ve had five guest blog posts on The Fictorians blog, but tonight (or this morning) is my first official post as a Fictorian myself. So here’s a linky:
My economics of writing #amwriting
My last post about my wonderful, horrible, exciting, terrifying year of trying to be “a writer” seems to have struck a nerve with some other writers. Some people expressed interest in more details of that year, with an emphasis on … Continue reading
An Eagle soars
I have a heavy heart typing this. Glenn Frey has passed away. Glenn Frey and Don Henley were responsible for a large fraction of the soundtrack of my high school years. My best friend and I would crank up … Continue reading
Ruminations on Star Wars nerdgasms and the phenomenon of fanaticism…
Yeah, I like a good Star Wars flick. I almost ended that sentence with “… as much as anyone.” But then I realized that was totally not true. Some people like a Star Wars flick a LOT more than I … Continue reading
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