On Fridays when I don’t post new fiction, I’ll be catching everyone up on how the novel and other projects are coming along. I’m under a bit of a deadline because I promised my editor I’d have it to her by the end of January. I’ve been making a lot of progress this week, but still have a bit to do. A problem that slowed me down was I decided to take two long chapters and rearrange them into four…
Definitely something I struggle with.
You may notice the links I’ve attached to my favorite books are through Amazon Smile, instead of just regular ol’ Amazon. There is a reason for that: my boss threatened my life. Just kidding (sorta). For those unfamiliar with Amazon Smile, they donate a portion of your purchase to the non-profit of your choosing. Everything else about your purchase is the same, you just get the bonus of helping out a worthy cause. As I’ve said, you can choose from…
How I’m feeling right now.
One of my goals for this blog is to use it to keep everyone up to date on what’s going on with my novel. As many of you know, I completed the first draft of my fantasy story at the end of November. I read a lot of advice about what to do next, but the prevailing theory was to put it away for a bit, work on something else, then come back to it fresh. So I set it…
The right word makes all the difference.
Since I was a little kid, I always wanted to write, but it wasn’t until recently that I put any effort into making that happen. I have attempted many projects over the years, most of which were abandoned before completion. But in the summer of 2016, I stumbled across a short story contest with a theme I could relate to. I wrote out a piece I felt was pretty good, and I asked a friend of mine (a poet) if…