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Editing a novel, for me anyway, is a process that I enjoy and dread. Dread first. This is a huge pile of paper, somewhere around six hundred fifty manuscript pages. And I know, from many years’ experience that the front end of it will be the worst. In starting a novel I tend to toss […]

I actually got 3,100 words written today before heading off to do other tasks. It’s another issue of The Secrets. Those end up amounting to around 75,000 words a year. I always enjoy doing them because I have to think about the process of writing and make sense of it. I often surprise myself with […]

If I worked for someone else and finished a big project, I’d get a bonus of some sort. Or at least a pat on the back. Alas, I work for myself, and I’d hurt myself if I tried that pat-on-the-back thing. So I have developed a habit of going out and buying myself a tech-toy […]

At the Queen’s Command is finished! The current draft comes in around175,000 words. In editing it probably won’t gain or lose from that total. Words that get clipped at the start will be put back in through the middle and end to clarify things. It’s amazing how much can be conveyed with an adjective here, […]

I knocked out what should be the next-to-the-last chapter in At The Queen’s Command today. It ran long, but not too long. I believe no one will complain and it is pitching toward stuff that will go on in future stories. If I were to end the book here, it would be okay, save that […]

It seems that everyone wants their piece of the ebook pie, and there is a general tendency to toss up your hands and assume that because the folks who are fighting for those right are huge, mega-corportations who are, for lack of a better phrase, “too big too fail,” that there is nothing that can […]

You didn’t miss a post yesterday—I never got to doing any writing. It was one of those weird, discombobulated days. I headed off to soccer too early, then returned home to cool my heels for an hour before going. (Fun game, I had a goal, we won, but just only barely, playing against folks we […]