Lockdown progress report for June 4-5, 2020 Total words: 631 (though I will write more today)Manuscript total: 92,630 (about halfway done?) I’ve been mostly silent these past couple of weeks, out of energy to blog about the coronavirus and the George Floyd protests. Out of energy because I think I’ve Read more…
Total words: 2,221Manuscript total: 50,927 I’m feeling really good about my progress on Empress of Dorsa, the third and final book in Tasia and Joslyn’s Chronicles of Dorsa trilogy. Only a month ago, the manuscript sat at about 11,000 words. That means I’ve added about 40,000 words in just a Read more…
Total words: 0 (it’s still early)Manuscript total: 42,517 That thing that I’ve been hearing people talk about finally happened to me today: This morning, I became utterly confused as to what day it was. As I headed downstairs early this morning to make my coffee and oatmeal, I was struck Read more…
Total words: ~1,600 (I closed Scrivener before double-checking the number)Manuscript total: ~36,000 Whoops, sorry I haven’t blogged in a bit, readers. It was a combination of the lazies… and actually being kind of busy again. We’ve been holding Zoom meetings with our seniors every weekday, and let me tell you, Read more…
Total words: 813 (but I do plan to write more later today)Manuscript total: 6,483 First, an Adele parody that will hopefully make you smile. And with that out of the way with… happy Sunday! I realized that this Sunday feels *almost* like any other Sunday. That is to say — Read more…
Today is March 15. And you know what Julius Caesar would tell you, right?? “Cave Idus Martii.” That’s Latin for “Beware the Ides of March.” In case you don’t know the story, Caesar was warned by a seer to be extra careful on March 15th, but he blew the warning 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…
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…