Hi friends, how’s the social distancing treating you? I’m a happy camper over here in San Diego. I’ve been teaching myself more about watercolors and mapmaking as I work on my Empire of Dorsa maps. But anyway, guess what I have to share today?! The first twenty minutes of the 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
2,575 words today, which is 425 words short of my goal for the day but I’m throwing in the towel anyway. I’m at 167,358 total for the manuscript. Pretty good considering I started the month at 151,301 and I’ve gone through both finals for USC and my edTPA filming since 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…
I’ve written over two thousand words today. The only problem is that I’ve been working on the “wrong” project… the prequel story that’s been brewing in my mind for a while. (I gave you the first chapter here a while back.) The good news is that I also wrote over Read more…