I went for a walk a couple days ago, but this is really nothing new. Since I’ve been working from home in 2020 I’ve walked over 330 miles. But I was thinking this morning about this book I’m outlining, and how frustrated I’m feeling that the outline isn’t done yet, and I remembered going for …
It’s not happening this year. That’s about as succinctly as I can put it. If you’ve been checking my word counts at all (link at the bottom of every page), you’ll have noticed that I haven’t written all week. I’ll be honest, it’s been a very stressful week for me. And maybe for you, too. …
The big news today is that I’ve finished the first draft of my book. As of right now, it’s just under 64,000 words, and so full of holes it might as well be a colander. I know this because I changed things as I wrote without going back and fixing stuff in the beginning. That’s …
As I near the end of this first pass at my latest book, I’m thinking about what it means to be finished. I’ll be done with this stage of the process in a few weeks, but I won’t be finished. After this pass I’ll let the words rest a bit, and then go back and …
Back in May I finished an outline for a new book. Well, I got about 30,000 words into that book and set it aside. Covid took over my mental space and I lost the thread. In September I started writing again, but on a whole new book. I outlined a new plot and got going. …