Month: April 2011

  • FInished My Ghost Story

    1399 words, and my ghost story, The Other Chance,; is done. The story in first draft runs 7641 words. I always add some words in second draft, because my first drafts run lean. I like my ending, I like the twist I got, and I definitely did not see the last bit going the way…

  • 1711 words, and another story revamp

    Blasted through the fourth scene today, and in it managed to do everything I’d planned for that scene, plus enough of what I planned for the next one that I think the story will wrap up with scene five. I currently have 6242 words total. Damn close to my minimum word count. I know I…

  • A Story In Pictures

    Today is my day off. Back-to-back-to-back 70+ hour weeks getting the HTTS Walkthrough ready, working with Margaret on the NovelWritingSchool.com setup… I was pretty ragged. But I woke up late today, and knew where the next part of my ghost story had to go. And I got 1832 words, and a complete scene plus change,…

  • 696 words, and CRAZY week

    I’ve written thousands of words this week, and designed web pages, and installed software, and built forms and site foundations. But tonight, I made time to work on my ghost story again, and got 696 words. The story flowed, I got a nice twist to end the scene, and a heart carved into a tree…

  • 1001 Words, and a Ghost

    Write A Book With Me is back. I’ll move back over to Talysmana and start doing words on that at night again, but Tricia Telep asked me for a ghost story to go into her next collection (I’ve previously written for The Mammoth Book Of Paranormal Romance and The Mammoth Book of Time-Travel Romance for…

  • Bracing For The Storm

    I’ve been doing HTTS Walkthrough prep and setup all week. Site set-up, lesson template setup, student set-up. Today I did workflow setup. Because I’m doing two projects at once, and because one is nonfiction and one is fiction, and because they are inextricably locked together like Siamese twins—and because both are MASSIVE projects, either of…

  • The Last Moon & Sun and the Think Sideways Walkthrough

    More than a month after I intended to start, (due to Circumstances Beyond Our Controlâ„¢), today I’m beginning The Last Moon & Sun…which is not the title of the book, but I have to call it something until I have a real title. This is not a little project. This is…well, mammoth. Why? One: I…