Category: Trainwrecks & Ghosts

  • Got the Main Storyline

    Not a lot of writing volume-wise, but I have the main character, the central conflict, and the basic world details in place. I’ll work on it as I can after I get my words over the next couple of days.

  • And Back to that Proposal

    Have a couple of hours before bed, the guys both have new games they’re playing together, so I’m going to see if I can take Claire’s comments from our phone conversation and everything I’ve been trying to figure out about the romance genre and see if I can do a workable proposal this time. I’ll…

  • And Now to the Work of the Day

    Writing up the pitch took a full two hours. Now, though, I have 3000 words of HAWKSPAR awaiting, and I’m excited. Rik and a motley crew of misfits set sail today on a rescue mission that no sane man would touch. That’s the first thousand words. In the two thousand words after that, the Acolyte…

  • Made My Pitch Today

    Did 1077 words of vigorous selling on the book I want to do for the pseudonymous project. I’m hoping that my passion for the story will sell it. I think it would be a great book, even though the editor was not enthused when I tossed in the one-word subject. If I don’t get to…

  • Not Going to Happen

    Shut down completely. The idea of six thousand words today just poleaxed me. At this point, I’ve gotten a couple hundred, and I’m sick to my stomach, and depressed, and stalled. The writing is simply a writing thing. The depression, however, is a family thing. Ran across pictures on the web of my two nephews,…

  • 24,854 words total

    Done. Going to bed. Will be back at six or so in the morning to do this again.

  • Proposal Done

    Compressing it down to one page sharpened it up considerably, helped me weed out things that were secondary, and gave the story a good punch. Am sending it off to my agent now.

  • Proposal — First Item on Today’s Agenda

    I went through the RED GLASS BOX proposal last night and marked the beats that I want to leave in. Today, my job is to cut 1700 words down to 300 and make sure those three hundred give an accurate representation of what I want to do with the book. And have soul. That’s the…

  • Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. The NEW New Plan

    We’re going to contract on pseudonymous book one. But the deadline has changed. It is now MAY 30. Instead of July 31. Just got 60+ days whacked out of my schedule. So now I have to look for 60 unused days in the first part of my year. REVISION MARKS FOR THE PLAN *//–>Marks indicate…

  • Finished at 15,167 Words

    A smidge over 3000 words for the day, so I hit my goal. I’ll consider printing off a copy of my proposal and looking at that later, but I don’t have to have the finished version until the end of this week at the earliest, and right now, I’m not in the mood to deal…