The reason for the lack of updates this week is that I hadn’t been writing much (due mainly to work and such) but I knew that this week’s chapter wasn’t going to be very long so I felt okay about waiting. Last night, when I was very tired and wanted to sleep, I had a [...]
I’m hitting a strange wall in writing this novel now in that I have not nailed down the cosmology of the culture, therefore I can’t write the interstitial bits between the chapters explaining what the purpose of the different neighborhoods are, which all depend on the cosmology. This does not completely stop me from writing [...]
A little while ago I calculated how long the novel would be based on the number of chapters averaging about 4K each. I also have a prologue and suspect an epilogue, neither of them longer than 2K. That comes out to about 55K total. It’s low, but when I go through and edit i’ll probably [...]
Wrote 1,029 words today. My goal has been to write at least 1K every day since I’m aiming for the chapters to be between 3 and 5,000 or so. So far, I’m meeting that goal and I have a little over 4,000 total. I have probably one or two scenes to go and then I [...]
Over 1,000 words today on chapter 1. I completed a difficult exposition-heavy scene and am satisfied with the expositionyness of it. Tomorrow I take my girls to the temple of Nebt-hut and they get to talk to a goddess and possibly throw down!
I’ll probably finish by Saturday. Friday if I shirk work, which I should [...]
I’m not the only person who was so busy yesterday that I forgot to mention that the Write-a-thon started. I was actually at a writing retreat since last Thursday and we came back down from the mountains yesterday. Still, I got a decent start on the first chapter of the novel and some ideas to [...]
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I'm a writer, most often committing acts of Fantasy and Science Fiction, though I have been known to slip in and out of genres. I'm famous on the internet, an editor of some repute, and hopeless convention addict.
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