Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! A lot of progress was made on book edits to Vivian’s Last Cigarette this week! This is in part thanks to a series of winter storms that’s kept my wife and I at home a couple days from work because... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Edits! Kim completed a double read of chapters 4-8 of Vivian’s Last Cigarette, and presented me with her feedback on Sunday. Now that she’s finished the first act, I was pleased that its surprise at the very end affected her... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! After six months and 70,000 words, Vivian's Last Cigarette is a finished first draft! The novel came to the end of its initial creation on Sunday, after I completed its last chapter and did some revisions to a couple of... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I had a solid weekend of writing, adding close to three-thousand words to the final chapter of Vivian’s Last Cigarette. The manuscript is now likely within a thousand words of becoming a finished first draft… and the excitement of typing... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I finally got back to working on Vivian’s Last Cigarette! The last chapter is started, and although I didn’t get a ton written, I did add a solid twelve-hundred words. Those words comprised a tricky opening scene that introduces three... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Ah, the last week of the year. That weird bridge between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays usually built with equal parts fatigued lethargy and retrospective. Although I am writing a retrospective for the year to be posted on Saturday,... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! This past week was the Thanksgiving holiday for myself and others in the United States. For me in particular, a conjunction of elective and holiday time-off combined with a weekend to grant me five free days. It was nice; I... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Fate and opportunity had different plans for me this week than I had initially plotted. But in the end, I’ve still come out with much to show from it: A new blurb for my book, an adventure getting a replacement... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Many small crises occurred this week. Ultimately my wife and I were victorious over each of these annoyances, but the cumulative effect of dealing with them impacted my writing time. Some were random, like automotive repairs that dragged into hours... Continue Reading →
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