Well, I didn’t win the November writing challenge on the writers group, but I don’t mind. The winner had an excellent entry and as I said before, A Contract in Azure and Indigo was twice the size of the second biggest entry. I don’t think the issue was quality, it was just too long for... Continue Reading →
The Wall of White
My friend David asked me… I wish I could write. I sit down at my laptop and my brain is one big chaotic jumble… How do you get your thoughts in order and get those words down? This is a great question. Not just to me but to all writers in general. I’ll start by... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: Blooming Amid Adversity
November began for me with a weekend of rain, wind and snow after Halloween. It was a good time to huddle at home with a hot cup of Earl Grey and process the events of October. With the downtime, I of course picked up my laptop and started to write. I began with some additional... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: Solace, Renewal and Comic Books
Given that my focus was on helping a friend deal with the sudden death of a parent this week, I was happy with whatever renewal my writing could provide or progress I could make with it. With that in mind, I got a lot done considering the circumstances: I finished reworking the fifth and sixth... Continue Reading →
The Creation of a Thing… In a Jar
Last week, I finished an involved reworking of the third and fourth chapters of my work in progress, revising them into a single entity. I start this week doing the same with the old fifth and sixth chapters to create a new chapter four. This has been trudging work when I have had both limited... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 26th 2014: Insert Name and Title Here
I'm still revising, editing, cutting and moving things about this week on The Lost Tomb of Omo! This type of work is hard to quantify in word count and I don’t have the desire or time to setup some methodology to track and relay it. So you’ll just need to trust me when I say,... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 21st 2014: The Lost Tomb of… Omo?
I found this incredibly funny... I had absolutely no idea that the name I had cooked up for my long dead king was also the name of a top-selling detergent in in Australia and New Zealand until a fellow writer on Reddit pointed it out to me today! I know that I have at least... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 19th 2014: Revision, Revision
This update finds me in the depths of some heavy duty revision of The Lost Tomb of Omo. I finally got all the pages back from Jessica, and her input confirmed my fears that the story had lost its pace early in the 3rd chapter. I was able to regain it in the 4th chapter,... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 9th 2014: 26,284 Words and a Boatload of Refinement!
Hello Dear Readers! Last week, the combination of a working holiday weekend and a milestone birthday really impacted my available writing time. I ended up skipping the update to use that time to work on The Lost Tomb of Omo instead. I’m glad I did that, as it at least gave me a feeling of... Continue Reading →
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