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Finishing a Novel: So That's What It Feels Like...

"I hate writing, I love having written." ~ Dorothy Parker

Now don't get me wrong, I've completed writing projects before. Even when I was seven years old I knew how to move a story to a conclusion even if it was just a three-pager about a horse and some magical flowers and, well, I don't really remember how that one goes but you get my point. Then there were short stories, essays, articles, and the horrible monstrosity known as a senior thesis in college. But my ambition (as you may notice fro...

September 2012 Word Count

September Goals:
 - 60,000 total word count
 - at least 15 days
 - 4,000 words per day
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Count Notes 1 4,624 Excellent start to the month! 2 4,066 Woo-hoo! Keep it up! 3 0 Riding in the car during a storm seemed to kill the streak. 4 2,755 Almost to the end! Almost to the end! And it's amazing how anything less than
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August 2012 Word Count

As a new accountability initiative am going to try posting my daily word count. Since I'm an INFP we'll see how long this lasts...

Target range of 2,000 to 3,000 per day at least 20 days per month (minimum of 40,000 words per month).

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Count Notes 1 0 n/a 2 0 n/a 3 2,389 Woo-hoo! First "real" writing day of the month. 4 2,000 n/a 5 332 Sad, but better than nothing. 6 2,334 n/a 7 212 n/a 8 0 See? This is nothing. 332 was better than this. 9 0 n/a 10 0 n/a 11 2,120 n/a 12 114...

The Lucky Seven Game

Jen the Amazing tagged me for this game. It’s called The Lucky Seven Game, and it’s basically a game of writerly tag. If you’re tagged, you have to do the following:
Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscriptGo to line 7Copy down the next seven lines/sentences as they are – no cheatingTag 7 other authors*New Rule* If tagged you come back post a comment here to lead others to your postStar Crossed (summary and first chapter posted here)
Romantic thriller. This is one of the scenes that e...

What's Your Platform?

During lunch our writing group at work attended the webinar "Getting a Non-Fiction Literary Agent with Carole Sargent" (courtesy of the UVa Alumni Association. She has a similar presentation already archived at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBlMag...

One of the things I've been thinking about is her discussion on having a platform before approaching an agent or publisher. It makes all that blogging and tweeting seem like so less a waste of time! We are just...

Publish or Bust

More than a little inspired by my tweeps like @goblinwriter (Lindsay Buroker) and @shaydenFL (Sean Hayden) I am planning to start self-publishing this Fall. Since my independent streak is easily more than a mile wide this isn't much of a surprise.

First up on the docket will be the novella "The Case of the Curious Ghost," which is currently being published as a serial on The Big Bowl of Morning Serial blog. It's the first case of Hawke and Johnson, Certified Necromantic Mages. Hopefully you wi...

Certified Necromantic Mages?

What kind of trouble can a couple of bored necromantic mages get into? In case you missed it, I'm publishing a story about two Certified Necromantic Mages as a serial over at the "Big Bowl of Morning Serial" blog. We're at the sixth installment and you can start at this link. Thanks for reading!!

Writing Assignment Where No Man Has Gone Before

June and July flashed by me like one of those crazy high-speed movie collages. But one great thing that came out of the early part of the summer was an invitation to help write a book about one of my favorite subjects: Star Trek. I'm not even sure how I got so lucky (actually I do, it was becoming good Twitter buddies with @ThatNeilGuy who shares my Original Series/Vulcan obsession).

So, over the next year or so there will be a LOT of Star Trek watching, Star Trek reading, and Star Trek writin...