Month: May 2003

  • Got the words after all

    It took a few more hours and working with a five-year-old popping up over my shoulder demanding things at fifteen-minute intervals, but I finished up with my full count of words for the day. 2000, and a bit of change. Peace has come to Hyre, and neither the Tonks nor the Eastils are happy about…

  • Second day of falling short

    Yesterday I got about a thousand words. Today I got about a thousand words. Wanted two thousand each day. Not happy with these counts, or with myself. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Because Learning Is Life

    A friend of mine sent me the following note in my e-mail this morning: From Jim Woosley In an article titled “An Education in 404 Pages,” by James Baccus, Vanderbilt Magazine, Spring 2003 issue, page 11, the author cites the following as the most significant recommended reading for someone interested in a liberal education but…

  • Progress and snags

    I’m making nice progress on Talyn; have hit my words every day this week — 2000 or better every day. Including today, even after the news. Midnight Rain has hit a snag. Both the hardcover editor and the mass market editor liked the revised proposal, thought they could work with me, figured that from the…

  • 2200 x 8

    I had a full twenty-two hundred words done by 8 a.m. today, which was ideal, since that was when I ran out of peace and quiet time. I never did make it to the prison; my poor guy ran into trouble getting there, and crashed into his story opposite in the flesh for the first…

  • Yesterday, and today … and {sigh}

    Yesterday I had my two thousand words plus change done by 8:30 a.m. (not that breathtaking when you realize that I was at the computer at 5 a.m., but still pretty good.) I’m aiming for the same level of progress today. The horses came home to roost yesterday, with interesting complications. And today I’m going…

  • A little short, but …

    Got sixteen hundred rather than two thousand words today, but I really like what I got. My Eastil hero, Gair, has just had everything go tits up on him in the worst of all possible ways — he’s a prisoner of war, most of his team is dead, the mission is screwed, and because of…

  • Today the words have raced

    After a week of plodding through scenes that have been hard to write and hard to focus on, today I got into horses, coins, cash, auctions, and the unthinking racism of a people who have been one race, one culture, one language, and only five flavors of one religion for centuries stacked on centuries, and…

  • A snippet from Talyn

    Just a little tiny piece of the story I’m working on right now. Gair is the team leader for a covert team moving against Talyn’s people. NOTE: This is first-draft, straight-off-the-keyboard, unrevised fresh text. It is posted for fun, so that I can share a little of what I’m working on. The final version of…

  • Synopsis ready to go

    The synopsis for Midnight Rain, incorporating editor requests for a more real-world approach to the villain and the hero, is finished. Came out at twenty-one pages. With the appended thumbnails for a couple of follow-up novels, the package is twenty-five pages. It reads well, I like the changes, and I think that they actually make…