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…
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…
I’ve only written 565 words today. That’s kind of sorry, and I won’t let myself finish the day like that. It’s only 5:30pm — that gives me a good four hours to get that number up before bedtime. (UPDATE: I’m finishing the day at 1,215 words and 92,718 total for Read more…
I hunted down the lyrics to a song I love to open “Part II” of my upcoming novel Eastside / Westside / Love (previous beta title was The Redevelopment of Drea and Kasey). The song is “But Anyway” by Tarica June, an artist I really like a lot. Take a Read more…
I’m dubbing today No Excuses Saturday. It sounds really good but fails to take into account that I woke at 7am and promptly laid in bed for almost three hours (yes, you read that correctly, I said “almost THREE HOURS”) listening to an audiobook and playing a sort of updated Read more…
So one way the many ways that I procrastinate and avoid getting down to the actual work I need to do is that I write on other projects. What I tell myself: “I will just work on this other project for a little while to warm myself up. Then once Read more…
I’m an enormous fan of The Walking Dead. *Enormous*. Enormous enough I actually have a bobble-head doll of Glenn on my desk — a doll I bought in Senoia, Georgia, where they film the show. Enormous enough that I get frequently reminded by the gf, “You’re a dork, you know Read more…
I like a good challenge. My girlfriend says I’m too hard on myself and she’s probably right (of course she’s right — she reminds me all the time that she’s ALWAYS right), but I also believe that you have to push a little in life if you’re going to make Read more…
I have this habit… I guess it’s a bad habit?… of starting new projects when I get stuck or bored with the one I’m working on. So I haven’t been working much on Reverie, although to throw you a bone, here’s a recent little excerpt: “Me?” the girl says. There’s Read more…