UPDATE: View the completed maps of the Empire along with the map of Port Lorsin here. As I posted on Instagram (and you should totally follow me on Instagram if you don’t), I am working on the map of the Empire before I jump into Empress of Dorsa. (Though I Read more…
So, I just finished the first draft of my edTPA. Which is pretty awesome. It’s a weight off my shoulders, even though it’s not quite finished. I missed my goal of finishing it by February 28, but I’d say March 1 isn’t bad. I still need to go through the Read more…
Without further adieu… Part I: The Lengthening Shadows “How the Shadowlands came to be is a mystery that the Brotherhood, in all its exploration, has never been able to answer. Did the Shadowlands always exist, as some histories state, or was it, along with its inhabitants, created by mankind? There Read more…
On Valentine’s Day, I finished my final edits on Soldier of Dorsa. Hooray!!! The book is currently in the hands of a few lucky (randomly chosen) beta readers, and after they’ve had a chance to let me know about any typos, grammatical errors, or inconsistencies they’ve found, I will release Read more…
And in other news, I was learning about Leonardo DaVinci’s uberman sleep schedule — apparently the man only slept in 20-minute increments every four hours — and that reminded me of the time that I tried a modified version of the uberman schedule. It went like this: 3.5 hours of Read more…
204,883 words in Soldier of Dorsa. Editing chapter 51 of 68. Doesn’t look like I’m likely to cut out the 10,000 – 20,000 words I was hoping for, but I’m also under 205,000 words, so that’s positive. Amazing things that have been happening this week! I don’t know if you’ve Read more…
205,249 words total in the manuscript. Currently revising Chapter 38 of 68. Thirty more chapters to go! Are there gender differences when it comes to success in personal growth? I get that Grant Cardone’s The 10X Rule is what my friend Sarah recently called “dude thinking” when I told her Read more…
Currently editing Chapter 32 of 68. Manuscript word count: 204,571. “Quality over quantity!” This is what I’m telling myself as I slog along with edits, revisions, and rewriting. I had honestly thought I could finish editing the entire book by the last week of January. Next week is the last Read more…
204,471 words in the manuscript (ugh, I’m trying to make that number go DOWN at this point, not up!). Editing chapter 24 of… I think I either have 67 or 68 chapters now. Hi, how are you? I’m good, thanks. But I just had an insane effing week. No, I Read more…
203,739 words in the manuscript. (Final draft goal: 180-190,000.) Currently editing chapter 16 of 67. I was going to write a different kind of blog post today, the kind where I lament the fact that it’s Sunday afternoon and I didn’t accomplish much this weekend because I spent Friday, Saturday, Read more…