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Geeking out and gearing up
Last week, I wrote about my accomplishments in 2013. Now I’m going to write a bit about what I want to accomplish in 2014. First, I have to tell you about a few things I picked up. One of the rewards...
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The next chapter: January 2014 update
For those of you who may not remember, I decided to try out some new programs and templates for my writing this year. So far, Scrivener and OneNote haven’t seen a lot of action. I think that if I start...
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The next chapter: February 2014 update
Greetings writerly peeps! As I mentioned yesterday, this winter has gotten me a bit down, and as a result I have not written as much as I would have liked to this month. There were some nights that I...
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The Writing Process Blog Hop
Yes, it’s actually happening! I had a bit of a false start back in April when Gemma Hawdon originally tagged me, and now that Claudette Young, A.K.A. Claudsy has tagged me for a second time, I actually...
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The Next Chapter: August 2014 update
This has been a weird month, writing-wise. I started out well enough, continued working on Gerod and the Lions, and started revising one of my longer short stories for submission. Then I went to When...
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The Next Chapter: September 2014 update
So here we are at the beginning of October, my favourite month, not in least because Samhain (Hallowe’en) was my hatch-day (and yes, I’ve heard them all and would proudly claim to be witch, werewolf,...
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The Next Chapter: October 2014 update
The month’s been a bit of a wonky one. I started out working on Gerod and the Lions, but with NaNoWriMo coming up, I started to work on my outline for my project more and more. That work was all done...
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The Next Chapter: December 2014 update and a year in the writerly life
Janus has two heads so he can look back and ahead. Plus, you really can’t make meaningful progress unless you take some time to reflect on your accomplishments and understand where your journey has...
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The next chapter: January 2015 update
Technically, I could have written this post last Saturday, but I was still writing into the evening and I count everything up until go to sleep on the last day of the month. As is often the case,...
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The next chapter: April 2015 update
Where I’ve been I don’t know how to say this, but April kind of sucked. Due to the situation at work, I decided to give myself a true break for the Easter long weekend. So, no writing there. The next...
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The next chapter: June 2015 update
As expected, with the revisions of Initiate of Stone complete(ish—I’m still getting the final sections from outstanding beta readers), query letter and synopsis written, and the query process started,...
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The next chapter: October and NaNoWriMo 2015 extravaganza!
In a way, I really enjoyed not posting on the weekends, but I don’t know how else I’m going to share my struggles, accomplishments, and great content like the CanCon 2015 panels I’ll start transcribing...
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The next chapter: December 2015 update and a year in the writerly life
Another year has come and gone. This one flew, but was filled with both Writerly Goodness, and sadness. First up: December 2015 I kept drafting Reality Bomb until it was complete. By December 20, it...
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The next chapter: January 2016 update
First, a note about the non-writing parts of my life Well, the new year has gotten off to a bit of a shaky start, not with respect to my writing and revision goals, but with respect to other stuff. In...
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The next chapter: February 2016 update
February is always a struggle for me, even in this year, when we didn’t have snow until after Christmas. By the time February rolls around, the dimness of winter has resulted in some degree of seasonal...
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The next chapter: March 2016 update
In my 2015 year-end update, I said that 2016 would be the year of revision. To this point, I’d only ever revised the one novel, Initiate of Stone. I revised IoS eight times and I recently got a few...
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The next chapter: May 2016 update
The year of revision is progressing steadily. I finished my first run through of Marushka, which ended up at 75,473 words total, 33,258 of which were revised in May, and moved on to Reality Bomb. I...
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Catching up with the DIYMFA Launch Team
Since I was away last weekend, I have a leetle catching up to do. So you get twice the DIYMFA QotW this week. Let’s start with the week 11 prompt: QOTW 11: What’s Your Favorite Supporting Character...
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The next chapter: July 2016 update
So, here we are again at a monthly update. August. Where has the year gone? One of the great things about tracking your production (and this applies to all things, not just writing) is that you can...
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The next chapter: August 2016 update
Let me tell you a story Dark season Over the last couple of years, August has been a bad month for me, emotionally speaking. I’ve been down. Living with depression, if you do it consciously, means that...
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