Writing yesterday went really well. I hit this awesome surprise, where one of my characters suddenly did something perfectly unexpected, showing up at my main character’s house with a cell phone video showing the impossible in action. It was exactly the weird and twisty wonderfulness that thrilled me, and made me laugh, and at the… Continue reading Trusting your characters to surprise you: 1400 words from Friday, reported a day late
Category: Ohio Series
Fun, Joy, Surprises, and The Way You Want A Writing Day to Go
Some writing days are just wonderful, and amazing, and fun from beginning to end… and you have to appreciate them when you have them, because a lot of them aren’t. So this is me being joyfully grateful. In spite of the fact that I got nearly three thousand words today, I actually only wrote about… Continue reading Fun, Joy, Surprises, and The Way You Want A Writing Day to Go
Better and better — Ohio Novel 2 and 2377 words
I woke up this morning knowing how Ohio #2 needed to end. And today I jumped to all the way to Chapter 25, five chapters from the planned last Chapter 30, and started writing the necessary stuff to get the story to that ending. Tomorrow, I may drop back to chapter 12, and then write toward… Continue reading Better and better — Ohio Novel 2 and 2377 words
Pretty good day — Ohio Novel #2 Progress
This morning, I increased my daily word-count goal to 1500 (up from 1250). This was a small change, and I’d been hitting that number pretty regularly anyway. So I decided to make it my regular objective. I came in just above that with 1532 words for the day. Have a nice situation going on with… Continue reading Pretty good day — Ohio Novel #2 Progress
Monday, and 1333 Words
Not a lot to say, but the wreckage of last week has now been cleared away, and I sat my ass down and wrote my book, and Ohio #2 is 1333 words closer to the finish line, with a total of 35,900 words down… In FIRST DRAFT, which is still a long way from done.… Continue reading Monday, and 1333 Words
Seven. But close to done.
At the moment, I don’t have much more to say than that. If I can get this last hill of shit shoveled, I will then be able to get some actual words today. If I get to my fiction before I run out of working hours, I’ll be starting at 34,298 words, with a writing… Continue reading Seven. But close to done.
Restarting Fiction Progress Updates
To say that I’ve been absolutely shitty about keeping up with the blog would be too kind by half. I’ve been in Ohio now for a year and three months, more or less, and have written six posts since getting here. One of them was about my fiction progress. There have been some things that… Continue reading Restarting Fiction Progress Updates
The Ohio Novel #1 Is Done! (Or what it’s like to disappear into a black box)
I wrapped up my final draft yesterday. In spite of best efforts, I came in over my 90,000K wordcount by about 12,000 words. I don’t have a title for the novel yet (Matt comes up with my best titles, and I’m really hoping he can pull out something amazing, both for the first book and… Continue reading The Ohio Novel #1 Is Done! (Or what it’s like to disappear into a black box)
Still kicking, still writing
So Ohio Novel #1 is pushing hard toward completion — or rather, I’m pushing hard and it’s fighting me all the way to the finish line. As I’ve discussed on the Alone In a Room with Invisible People podcast, having this book done doesn’t mean there’s going to be a new book. Not soon, anyway.… Continue reading Still kicking, still writing
The New Year, My Ohio Series and the Hero’s Journey
The Crash The new year is just an arbitrary date — not a real thing, not something that can change your life. If you’re in a Western European-derived country, then you use the Western calendar. In which Pope Gregory XIII built a new calendar to update the Julian calendar (which had an issue with equinoxes),… Continue reading The New Year, My Ohio Series and the Hero’s Journey
