Welcome, 2023!

I didn’t do any writing last month, so I thought this would be a good time to greet the new year by just sort of generally putting my thoughts in order on everything I’m doing. Writing Stuff The Shadow of the Ruin trilogy is complete. This latest rewrite was the final one I’m going to

November Writing Update

I ended my October roundup by reporting that I’m getting ready to begin a fresh set of queries, and that’s where I still am. My last querying experience (2019) did not go very well — I received very little in the way of replies at all, and those that I did receive were rejections —

October Roundup: Looking Like Querying Time!

There’s not a lot to report in terms of writing from the month of October 2022. I spent the middle of the month traveling for my photography (www.dylanleesphotography.com), visiting the Pacific Northwest regions of Columbia River Gorge and Mount Rainer National Park. I love the Pacific Northwest, and felt rested and inspired as I stood

September Writing Summary

There wasn’t a giant amount of actual writing that took place in September: rather, I spent pretty much the whole month (minus one weekend where I flew to Florida to compete in electric karts) doing editing and revisions on the second and third volumes of my (still untitled) trilogy to bring them into line with

July Update: Getting Close!

After a slow month in June, I was mostly back on schedule in the month of July. I took a few days off to compete in the iRacing 24 Hours of Spa (we finished 7th, but had a disconnect that cost us a potential win), but otherwise I didn’t miss more than one day in

June Monthly Roundup

June was a pretty slow month, so it’s fitting that I’m getting to it so late. I only managed to get in four productive days of writing in the month of June. I traveled in the middle of the month (Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal!), and after returning I sort of took the last week

May Writing Report

I managed to accomplish a modest amount of writing in the Month of May, while also dealing with a variety of distracting factors. The first week or so was spent finishing up editing on my photos from the Colorado Plateau. On the 14th, I also wrote the first installment of a new Writer Reaction series

April Writing Summary

This is going to be a quick summary: I didn’t do very much writing in April. As an unpublished author, my writing is sometimes forced to take a back seat to my other creative endeavors. During the height of the pandemic I didn’t travel very much, but now that things are easing up I am

March Monthly Roundup

The rewrite project for The Shadow of the Ruin continues, I’m happy to report! It doesn’t continue particularly quickly, but it does continue. I entered the month of March with good momentum, and got off to a strong start, writing over a thousand words per day on fourteen of the first nineteen days. Then I