Over the last two weeks, I’ve finally started in on a project that’s arguably long overdue: a complete, tear-down rewrite of my first completed novel, still provisionally titled The Shadow of the Ruin. The first manuscript was written between January 2013 and August 2018, at a staggering 222,500 words. A partial rewrite, aiming primarily at…
It’s been a while without an update; all the way since November of 2020. During that time, I’m happy to say I’ve got a lot done in terms of writing! The original target for The Second Sundering was to have a first draft complete by the end of COVID-19, which I (somewhat pessimistically, I thought!)…
For the second week of my unofficial Novel Writing Month, I made good progress and pushed on to complete my chapter scripts for all currently planned chapters of The Second Sundering. Between November 9th to the 13th, I wrote 10,103 words to finish off the remaining 13 chapter scripts. Now, for the rest of the…
One week into the month of November, and I’ve made a good start on my goal of pushing to complete the script for The Second Sundering. Writing between Monday and Friday (and trying my best to avoid being distracted by the uncertain results of the US Presidential Election that was ongoing during some of those…
With the final week of November now in the books (I cheated, and counted Saturday into the week), it’s time to see how I did for the month. First, here’s the weekly stats: Fourth Week: Saturday the 23rd to Saturday the 30th With the coming of winter, my usual gig economy activity at night was…
Wrapping up the third week of my unofficial participation in National Novel Writing Month; I didn’t accomplish quite as much as last week, but still a solid effort by my standards. Maybe I’m finally becoming a more consistent writer? Third Week: Saturday the 16th to Friday the 22nd I mostly wrote on my standard one…
Continuing on with my unofficial participation in Novel Writing Month, here’s my personal log for the second week: Second Week: Saturday the 9th to Friday the 15th Since I was home for this whole week, I was able to ratchet up my productivity a little. I’m not trying to hit the 50,000 word goal for…
National Novel Writing Month is this month. I’ve never participated — personally, I tend to see it as a bunch of fast writers getting together and celebrating that they can write fast, which isn’t something I feel a part of. I’m still not participating this year, but in recognition of the month I’ve decided to…
Like most millennials, I grew up with a pair of headphones on my head and don’t think properly if I’m not listening to some good music. I can’t concentrate in silence; if you put me alone in a quiet room and told me to write a chapter, I’d probably never get past the first paragraph.…
There are many rules that exist within writing, and even more for each subcategory of writing. For novels, one of those rules is that the whole is divided into chapters. As rules go, that’s about as universally recognized as you can get. But what about the length of those chapters? That’s a whole different story.…