Process of work in progress.
I am continuing to edit book 1 in the Naldo Series. Not Too Late Forever has been an intense learning experience for me. Over the years I have heard over and over again, write it and put in a drawer, then write another. I have contemplated filing “Not Too Late Forever” away, but I can’t….
This week I got very strongly reminded that I had not spent the proper amount of time posting something, anything to my webpage. Life has gotten away from me. As with many others who would love to be published authors, there is so much going on in my life. A fulltime job and part of…
For now and most of the rest of the year, I’m going to work on “Misty’s Magical Shed”. It was my second attempt at NaNoWriMo. So far it is the only one in which I did not reach the 50k word count. If you have read or want to read previous posts, I used this story…
I wrapped up NaNoWriMo 2016 with just over an hour to spare. I’m happy with what I have to work with now. I believe it’s a good story for book 4 in my Naldo series. I ended with at least two extra friends. They will be the protagonists for book 5 in the series. One…
The past couple of week s I have been working to get to know my characters better. The first step is to learn their names. So far I have the protagonist, Alexandra, Allie, M’Ren. The first born of her generation, she is named for her grandmother. She is set to follow her grandmother’s example of uniting the cultures of…
Saturdays for the next couple of months are dedicated to getting ready for this year’s NaNoWriMo. I need to get to know my characters and at least have a vague idea of what the inciting incident is. Saturday, September 10, I opened up a file titled “Information for book 4”. The information talked about the Ciboney,…
Lately it has been more difficult to get time for my writing. I have been making more family time. That comes in the form of walking later at night. The city where I live is beautiful and well lit, so walking late is not a scary thing. This is especially true with my two nephews….
The last couple of weeks have been tumultuous. To explain a little, I work a forty hour a week job, volunteer in the community and currently work on three story lines. This is my life and one I enjoy. What made the last couple of weeks different from the norm, is that a position once…
We all struggle with something. Today, I go off to a day job like many others. Whether that is good or bad is my choice to determine. It will never by my passion, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy it. What I look forward to most is the times in between that I…
Thursday, March 19th, we meet in the evening at the Hilton in Eugene to get to know each other a little better. I really enjoyed this last year. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed the whole conference last year. Eugene is a nice college town, neither to big nor too small. I spent a…
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For writers the month of November is NaNoWriMo also known as National Novel Writers Month. It is the challenge to write fifty thousand words or more in the month. I have participated before and been successful. I have also participated and not been successful. Either way I have the bones to a book. This year is…
I had a chance to talk with a good friend over coffee. It seems I have been more than a little confusing with my posts lately. I thought I would show you what I had written, then show you how I improved it. That left a combobulated trail to follow. Starting this week I will…
I did it. Final word count for Oh What Fools We Be: 50,359
It’s coming up on the final week of NaNoWriMo, and I’m barely over halfway there. I’m going to work really heard this week to catch up. The story about Zoe and the plot to wipe intelligent life from planets, so the mineral riches can be mind without hindrance, has taken several turns, Zoe herself has…
Halfway through the month of November and I am far from halfway through the words needed to win at NaNoWriMo. Still it does not seem that far out of reach. If I make some significant headway today, there is still hope. I am happy with the story. The characters are surprising me. Here is the…
Even though The Surrey International Writers’ Conference 2013 is not quite over yet, it’s time to plunge into another endeavor. NaNoWri 2013 starts this Thursday at midnight. I have the charachters. I have the story. I don’t have the title yet, but that will come. Zoe will have her day. What I mean about Surrey being…
Final day, this is good and sad. The day started out more relaxed than the others. I slept in until 6:00am. The other days I got up closer to 5:00. I had hoped to stay for the closing ceremony, but got too nervous that I might miss my plane. So I headed to the airport. It takes…
I made it to Surrey, wohoo! It was an experience. The folks here are awesome. I took the mass transit to get to my hotel. Wow, over an hour. I just asked questions. This afternoon I have a master class with Robert Dugoni. A master class is a 3 hour class to learn something, that…
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I thought I would take the latest story I submitted to a contest and edit it. The name of this story is Ode to a Dying Breed. Marie Alexandra Wiktran is the main character. During this week I’ll post information I learn about her. Next week I’ll post the first two pages of the original…
February 17, 2013 Now to work on the antagonist of the story. All I know at this point is that his name is Connell Kreios. His is the captain of a rusty old space ship. It’s not really a pirate ship, but intentions of captain and crew are not honorable. Connell has wasted his time…
January 28, 2013: I need to write something for my website. So what do I do? First I need to make a new friend. With each new character in my stories, I need to get to know them first. Lately I have been thinking about someone like Typhoid Mary. In the next few weeks I…
