1,257 words tonight.  That should make up for yesterday’s missed goal. The great thing is that I’m starting to really get into this story.  In my mind, I’m already thinking out the details of the events in the next couple of chapters.  Now, I just need to make sure to keep up with it! Unfortunately,… Continue reading 1,257 words tonight and where I’m going with the storyline

So, I’ve been unpacking and moving in all day–what a freaking chore! It didn’t help that my sister, who left me her car while she’s visiting the family, was 5,000 miles overdue for an oil change, or that it suddenly decided to leak power steering fluid. Holy cow! I could go on listing things, but… Continue reading Writing Is Not Mindless Entertainment

Yeah, I did about 3,000 words in The Lost Colony today.  I’m just about caught up to the place where I was before I decided to rewrite the first chapter.  About a third of that was cut and pasting from the previous part, but I did have to substantially edit it. The funny thing is… Continue reading 3,000 Words Today

I’m surprised how easy it is, in fact! About half an hour of writing. When I know what I want to do, it flows out nice and easy. Almost like I’m reading my story as I write it. It might just be as easy as updating my photoblog each night. At this rate, it won’t… Continue reading Hey, 500 words per day isn’t that tough!

I thought I should post the prologue to the story I’m working on, to set things up a little bit and clue you in to how I imagine this universe to be. Also, any suggestions or feedback would be good: I’ve gotten some feedback already on the Quark boards, which has been interesting. I have… Continue reading The Lost Colony: Prologue

All last year, I had this really great idea for a novel, and even worked out a significant portion of the story out in my mind, but only got up to about 10,000 words before losing momentum with it. It just kind of sat on my hard drive for a couple of months, forgotten, before… Continue reading The Wheels are (Finally) Grinding