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…
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…
2,779 words today… Um, except those words were for Empress of Dorsa rather than Soldier. (I would share it with you but it contains Soldier of Dorsa spoilers.) I’m doing that thing again where I procrastinate on my main project by working on another. But I suppose it’s okay… I 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…
Soldier of Dorsa sits steadily at 127,983 words today, or about 1,000 words more than my update from just over a week ago. I’ve come a long way (or regressed a long way) since the days when I expected myself to write 1,000 words per day at minimum. My co-worker Read more…
Word count for today: 0. Manuscript total: 125,379 — only about 2,400 words since last week’s update. On Friday night, I got to watch LT read one of her short stories at an event that was part of the annual Lambda Literary Festival in Los Angeles. All the authors who Read more…