As of this weekend, the manuscript is up to 54,000 words. Most of it has been from the previous drafts,…
So the first 3 days of NaNoWriMo were devoted to… Salvaging what I needed from the four previous drafts. (Well,…
Okay, so I’m doing the thing. I’m going to use NaNoWriMo to rewrite Storming Amargosa. I’m going to take it from…
Way back in 2007, I pitched a book to Charles Ardai of Hard Case Books hoping he would back me…
147,000 words. And it needs another draft. FML. As the battle scenes got unwieldy, I realized I put too much…
We’re into the battle scenes now. I also realized this draft may not be the last one. I’ve gone from…
By the time you read this, I will be in the home stretch. All the meddling kid chapters will be…
In in the last round of “meddling kids” chapters, wherein I write a POV chapter for each of the four…
I spent most of last week writing a looooong chapter about JT. Some of it was taken from the most…
Writing a novel is a lot like building a house. In the case, it’s more like renovating a house as…