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August 16, 2016
Knave Update: Cafe Fiore All-Day Push
Today begins a string of all-day writes.
Goal: Complete Beta draft to 85%, and send it to Beta Readers. While they read, I finish the last 15%. BOOM!
Notice the headphones: Thanks to the inestimable Martin Shoemaker (a 2015 Writers of the Future winner) for showing me that Instead of typing or writing at a desk, I can dictate passages while I hike or walk.
So often it seems I face the choice between writing and exercise, but thanks to Martin’s revelation, I need not always face that choice. Today I will transcribe* two “foreshadowing” passages that I composed on a walk I took while waiting for a ferry in Fauntleroy .
*Martin actually pays a service to transcribe for him. He composed a novel this year commuting in his car to his day job. Kevin J. Anderson also composes this way.
Some of my “Foul Papers”
August 15, 2016
Late Start Desk at Cafe Racer
Late start at fiore today for 3.5 hours. Another 3.5 tonight at Cafe Racer. Had to swap out the caffeine.
August 14, 2016
August 13, 2016
August 12, 2016
Writers of the Future, Volume 32 is on Sale!
Recall the short story prequel I wrote for The Jack of Souls?
It won a place in this year’s Writers of the Future anthology, and that anthology is on sale for a buck in the Kindle store!
Original stories and original art for a buck. Sweet!
August 9, 2016
August 6, 2016
Knave Progress Update: Friday’s Desk
I’m into the hard-copy polish phase of THE KNAVE OF SOULS.
That means I print a chapter, I read it for flow and economy of writing, mark it, type in corrections, and DONE!
Target Release Date: Thanksgiving!
