Hello, everyone! Despite being under the weather, I wanted to take a break from the manuscript I am working on and see what I could bring to all of you fine individuals today. 🙂 Writing is going incredibly well, knock on wood. 110,000 words in approximately six weeks, minus things I ended up cutting. That … Continue reading Ink To Paper
Manuscripts
“Who Are You?”
A few days ago a family member offered to read my new manuscript. It was a very "Alice In Wonderland" moment. I damn near said "Whooo Are YOU?" and everything, just like the caterpillar asks Alice. I turned my face to the right, in utter mortification. "I can be objective." was their argument. Um, I'd … Continue reading “Who Are You?”
Square One
Square One What happens when you’ve written multiple drafts of the same novel, in a month, and you find yourself liking both versions that are relatively complete? I suspect this doesn’t happen to a lot of people, but it has happened to me. After staring at each of them on and off for a full … Continue reading Square One
The Not-So-Lost Manuscripts
For the last eight months or so, I had silently convinced myself that I was abandoning the manuscripts for the series of novels I began writing in 2010. Before you scoff and judge that length of time, note that I wasn't writing "just one thing". I was writing multiple manuscripts (hence, a "series of novels") … Continue reading The Not-So-Lost Manuscripts
