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Okay, so I still have to get the hang of blogging. I suspect that I work at writing, then want to walk away from the keyboard, so I resist posting results. As of today, the book stands at 90K words. Today’s contribution was Chapter 36. So it would look like the last sixteen days has […]

Thursday, Friday and Saturday I kicked out another four chapters, bringing the total word count on the book to 56,825. The book is hitting that critical point where the plot is becoming more complicated, and events have to tighten. I’m roughly eight chapters out from where we start the push to the climax. Time for […]

Only got one chapter out today. At 2603 words, it brings the total to 46,454. I’m pleased with the progress. The story is growing, and the emotional parts of it are getting stronger. As should be expected for any character of mine, things will never go quite as smoothly as they ought to. Usually I […]

Sunday was a bust for writing on the book. Soccer was early, which wiped out the early session, and then I was exhausted, which wiped out anything else. At least that’s true writing-wise. I did manage to make notes and run some dialogue, which helped set up the rest of the week. Monday and Tuesday […]

I got an early start today, too, because I have a meeting around noon and after that I need to do an issue of The Secrets newsletter. This one will be titled When good enough isn’t good enough. On the book I got Chapter Fifteen written. This morning, over coffee, I figured out what I […]

Today I got an early start and nailed two chapters, bringing the total word count up to 33,549. The two chapters built on each other and also are beginning a transitional phase for the novel. It’s almost like restarting the story, and for our hero’s circumstances it really is. The emotional through-line, however, continues (albeit […]

Lots of folks are participating Nanowrimo, or National Novel Writing Month. It’s a worthy effort to encourage writers to produce a novel in a month (duh!). In this case by novel they mean a work of 50,000 words minimum. Commercially that’s not a novel (80K words minimum), but there is no sense in quibbling. Stringing […]