Category: Night Echoes

  • Most of the Way Through the Write-In

    NIGHT ECHOES is just about finished. I have most of the write-in edit done. Yeah, it took longer than I planned, but my editor had already told me she wouldn’t be able to get to it until the 21st, so this might be a case of work expanding to fill the space available. The first…

  • Closing on the Revision Ending

    Spent yesterday dog-sick and mostly asleep on the couch. Today, I’m much better. I’m well into the revisions on Night Echoes, and I figure I have a few more days of hard work to take it to the finish. My biggest focus right now is coming up with a more satisfying last few lines; if…

  • DONE DONE DONE

    First draft of Night Echoes is done, on time and at the right length. Revision starts tomorrow. I’m doing the Snoopy Dance, big time.

  • Fewer Than Five Thousand Words to Go

    I’ll finish the first draft of Night Echoes tomorrow. I’m thrilled. I’m amazed at how it’s going together, and excited to write the ending.

  • 5000 Words A Day

    Current pace. All on Night Echoes. It’s going—pretty well, even.

  • The World Looks Brighter Today

    After 13+ hours of sleep, the migraine is gone. My blood pressure, which had spiked due to all the stress (though not up to the 160/110 range it was traveling in before I fixed it—just up to 140/84), has worked its way back down to normal levels. The air conditioning is fixed. The water isn’t,…

  • Migraine

    All day. Still. Did not need this.

  • Cover Art for Night Echoes

    Got the cover art for Night Echoes, thought I’d pass it along. I think it’s pretty nice.

  • 4000+ Words Per Day

    I haven’t been around because I’m tired. I’m doing a damned good job of being productive, writing more than 4000 words a day every day (a lot for me), but in spite of that, my HAWKSPAR deadline is falling apart, and I’m dropping behind on other things, too. Have had a few rejections lately, which…

  • Got the Words

    Night Echoes started falling into place today. Got 2000 words. Will work on Hawkspar this afternoon. Right now, I’m starting into an open-ended fantasy proposal that has to be put together by next Monday. I am mapping, worldbuilding, language creating, and character-developing like mad—paper flies from my fingertips like lightning from the hands of mad…