Category: Write A Book With Me

  • DTD–Saturday Night’s All Right For Writing

    Okay, bad pun on a song title. But this is your post if you’re writing a book with me. If you wrote today, how did it go?

  • DTD-Your words on Friday Night

    As noted, I take the weekends off. My weekend is Friday night, and Saturday night… but I know you might actually be writing on Friday/Saturday… So here’s the Friday night, Saturday morning “write a book with me” post. And I’ll have a Saturday night, Sunday morning one popping up for you at the appropriate time.…

  • DTD—504 words and a rock band

    A short run through the bowels of Madison Square Garden in disguise, still pursued by killers. Finished the scene and the chapter, and now have 21,688 words completed. Tomorrow, I’ll pick up Ki’s point of view, and the invasion of his lair by his unwelcome, trouble-plagued guest. I had great fun with this scene. If…

  • DTD—289 words forward, and a small clue

    Aleksa gets the first hint that what she thinks happened to her assistant is not what happened at all. Small segment tonight—I haven’t slept more than a couple of hours a night since last Friday, and I’m determined to get a full night’s sleep tonight. So, with 21,184 words completed, I’m going to turn in.…

  • DTD—286 words, and digging into the mystery

    My heroine, convinced that her apparent allies are in fact allied with her enemies, questions her captor. Fun session tonight. Got to explore one of my important secondary characters on my way to the bigger surprise I have planned between hero and heroine. If you’re playing the “write a book with me” game, post your…

  • DTD—Night off with the AFK

    I took last night off. No words. The Air Force Kid is home on leave before going back to the desert for another 6 months, and we sat up and talked and played video games and just hung out together until about 3:30 AM. If you’re playing “Write a book with me,” here are a…

  • “Write A Book With Me” is a go.

    Look at the line of tabs right above the blog title (Pocket Full of Words). You’ll see a new tab there for Write A Book With Me. The tab includes the short list of game rules (mostly non-rules, frankly), the playing levels with explanations, and ways to keep track of what’s going on. You don’t…

  • Want to write a book with me?

    Got 506 words of Dreaming the Dead tonight, and put my MC in a situation where she’s not sure if she’s been captured by friendlies or enemies. And I realized what I’m doing right now creates a perfect opportunity for folks who want to write a novel but who need a bit of a boost…

  • DTD: 333 more words take me over 20K

    Good words last night, along with surprising action as my MC remembers something horrible that shaped her life, and decides to fight for survival. I’m stunned to realized that working at this ambling, casual pace, I’m already over 20,000 words, and that if I were planning a normal-length book, I’d already be 20% done. This…