Nano is coming fast. Wow, is it coming fast! Tomorrow! Eeek ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm nuts. Trying to finish a novel before Nano starts. In one way that's a very good thing. Gearing up to Nano means the mind and muse are raring to go at writing. But you can't start until November 1st. By having another project it satisfies that writing 'itch ( Read more... )

Exactly 6 weeks away from today. Yowza!

Originally published at JA Marlow.

We had quite the storm go over us today, complete with lighting, thunder, winds, rains and the power blinking out. At the end of it came a gorgeous full double rainbow. It was too big to take a picture of with the camera in one single shot, so I put together a composite. The colors were a lot brighter than what the camera captured. Even the purples ( Read more... )

On day 11 at about 10pm, I reached 50033 words. The writing didn't stop however! Before midnight, the count had grown to 51661. The novel "The Phoenix Eggs" is really shaping up. The climax is within sight and the characters are finding themselves in rather a big pickle.

Perfect! (not for the characters, but you know what I mean)

JulNoWriMo has ( Read more... )

I won NaNoEdMo with 74.5 hours. That was good enough to place 7th on the final list of editors. Whee! The time really helped whip "The String Weavers into shape ( Read more... )

Nanoedmo is going okay. Not great, but okay. I'm doing well with the numbers. Out of 50 hours I'm standing at 40 hours last night. But it's a good thing I did so much earlier in the week, as this last week has been horrendous. For 5 days, no editing at all. The only creativity has consisted of doing a little sketching during my lunch times for the ( Read more... )

National Novel Editing Month

Yes, yet another one. The timing of NaNoEdMo is designed to provide enough space between the end of NaNoWriMo to allow the book to rest (This is run by a different group than NaNoWriMo). Now is the time to pick it up and start the big revision/editing process!

Of course, I've been involved in this process since the ( Read more... )

Oh yeah ( Read more... )

Having so many days off of work over the holidays and new years did wonders for the big line-by-line revision of "The String Weavers". 184 printed pages (Note to self for next time: Print out with a little more space between lines next time), 90k words, and as of Saturday at 2pm, it was finished! Of course, now comes the hard work of typing it all ( Read more... )