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I turned out a chapter’s worth of words today before my hands started hurting. To give my hands some time off, I did some work around the house, packed up some orders and prepped some things for Christmas. It was a light day for physical activity, at least until the evening. I went dancing and […]

I did manage to get a chapter done, and it ran long: 3400 words and change. Mind you, that’s a bit better than I thought I’d get done, given how the day started. Of course, I had intended to write two chapters, but that plan just wasn’t going to happen, as was made apparent from […]

I didn’t get any writing done today. Last night I did not sleep well. There are times, when working on a book, that insomnia sets in. My subconscious keeps churning away on problems I don’t even realize exist yet. When you’re too tired to get up and work stuff out, and yet too awake to […]

Today was a lot of fun. I got to go the Phoenix Skeptics meeting where we do our annual predictions. In 2009 we hit on 83.3% if our predictions. This is down from last year, but we actually predicted correctly that our percentage would be lower than in 2008. Yes, we are just that good. […]

I got another chapter done today. I’ve only been doing one a day in December to give my hands a chance to recover. It’s working pretty well. They aren’t hurting as they were, which is no fun, of course; and a rather dismal prospect for the future. I might have gotten more done, but I […]

In working today I ended up writing the two paragraph selection below. The sentence in red is the the one I want to call your attention to. “Gentlemen, as ridiculous as Reverend Beecher’s argument is, it does bear consideration.” Major Forest took the stick from his nephew. “Many of you have killed other men. Most […]

The post I made yesterday started some good discussions on my website, Facebook and at Office Hours in Second Life on Wednesday. The leading candidates as a viable alternative to the term self-publishing” were J. Steven York’s “Author Direct” and the idea of “Indie Publishing” (taking a nod from the music field). I liked my […]