Month: November 2010

  • How to write a novel

    Oh, ghod. I wish I hadn’t heard wannabee writers say every single one of the things you’ll hear here. Thanks to Jim Woosley, who sent the link. (For the queasiness, too, dude.) Download as PDFPrint Page

  • I’m changing templates

    The next couple of days may be a bit rocky for the writing diary. I’m changing templates to match it to my main site, (which is now MUCH upgraded, take a peek) and it’s a completely new template, which means I can’t use anything I have set up from the current one. Please bear with…

  • The butler did it

    531 words tonight, a few more earlier in the week. Jace has now met Quin, the butler. Butlers in space. Who’d’a thunk? Anyway. There was writing, I got words, and if I seem to me to be drifting a bit off track, I am acknowledging that this is first draft, and first draft always sucks…

  • A new character arrives

    I knew Jace Winter would be meeting Kih Soh Hohito in this section. What I did not know was that a new character, Quin, would appear. Yet his arrival makes perfect sense. I don’t know him yet. I have an idea of what he’ll have to do in this story and the ones to follow,…

  • The funny thing about humans

    I’ve been working on Help Wanted on and off as I’ve had the energy. Last time I updated the WIP bar, I had 6013 words total in the story. I now have 7654, so that’s 1641 since I last posted. Not 500 a day by any means, but still something. Today I got to figure…

  • Two New Links

    Haven’t done anything with my blogroll in ages, but today I added both my daughter’s hippie jewelry, and my younger son’s toy review site. Thought you might enjoy both of these. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • “Not Quite Who I Had In Mind”

    518 words, bringing me over 6000, so halfway done. What I got tonight is too expository, and I’m going to have to fix it in revision, but the bones of it are pretty good—and it sets up the “reason why” for what I hope to write as a a series of short stories. How were…

  • Facing Devastating Failure

    My heroine has been going through hell in hopes of achieving a tremendous goal, only to have everything she worked for ripped away from her because she chose integrity over compromise. 754 words tonight. Story, Help Wanted. Headache is pretty bad right now, but I finished out scene two with a nice cliffhanger. How are…

  • Back To Fiction

    I’ve had to take a bunch of days off, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. However, when I’ve been up to it, I’ve been working. On Rebel Tales, on NovelWritingSchool.com, and also on fiction. I was doing pretty well with TalysMana, but my daughter has some scheduling problems right now, so we’re having…

  • Halloween Tonk

    Got an email from a reader who loved Talyn and wanted to make herself a Tonk Shielder uniform. She used Talyn as her basic reference, and got a lot of the rest of the details from the Tonk Stuff I’ve posted online. She asked me a few additional questions, though, I provided details, and she…