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…
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…
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…
203,920 words, y’all. That’s how long the complete second draft of Soldier of Dorsa ended up being. And 52,000 of those words were written between December 1 and the day I finished, January 5. In other words, I basically pulled a NaNoWriMo without intending to. Originally, I had planned to Read more…
When I look back at my ambitious 2019 New Year’s post, I feel really embarrassed. The only part of that post I managed to deliver on was Eastside / Westside / Love. Everything else… well, I think you know. It was embarrassing enough that I had pretty much decided not Read more…
I haven’t started writing yet this morning, but I stopped yesterday when my manuscript hit exactly 180,000 words, because that seemed like a significant landmark. I even took a screenshot of it: I had to stand back for a moment when I saw that number and appreciate how far I’ve Read more…
1,995 words today. 151,301 total for the manuscript. Just for a point of reference on how long this damn book is getting: Soldier of Dorsa is already longer than Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban, getting closer to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and trundling along towards a Read more…
2,370 words today — yes, on Soldier of Dorsa and not any procrastination project. 139,073 total words for the manuscript. Still marching like a soldier towards the expected endpoint of about 200,000. My goal for the month of November is to reach 148,000 words, yet I have squandered my time Read more…