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…
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 As an unpublished author, my writing is sometimes forced to take a back seat to my other creative endeavors.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…
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…
In my last update (How two months got lost) I ended on the cautiously optimistic note of ‘My next goal is the 14th of February, two months after I began my break. We’ll see if I make it.’ I did! On precisely the 14th of February, I returned to writing my total rewrite project of…
As I mentioned in my October update, November got off to a slow start, with my first week being largely committed to an iRacing event with teammates. I actually started writing on the eight of November. My project for this month was still the rewrite of The Shadow of the Ruin (for which I am…
This past month, I finally moved past the planning stage and started committing actual bits to a file for the rewrite of The Shadow of the Ruin. It wasn’t my most productive month ever, but it was a start. In total, I completed 5 chapters this month, totaling 16,574 words. I have had to revise…
This is going to be a sad roundup, and there’s no way around that. I didn’t get much of anything done in September. Unfortunately, the emergent situation that I talked about in my August roundup did not have a good ending. Our cat, Shale, was taken to the emergency vet as the culmination of several…
This is something I’ve been planning for a while to help keep me updating and working. My first ‘monthly roundup’ is going to be a bit of a belated one, because although I haven’t done much of any writing work in the month of September yet, I also haven’t done much of anything else, including…
Writer Reaction: The First Law Trilogy
This is the first installment of a series for this blog that I’ve been considering for a while. I believe that an important part of any author’s job is to be fluent in the published body of their genre, which for me is fantasy (with a significant lean towards epic fantasy). I intend to write…
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