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 →
On Monday my close friend Jessica, who I have mentioned here before as half of my “alpha reader” duo, lost her mother to a sudden and completely unexpected death. She was so shaken by the chaos of the unfolding event that I drove the hour long trip to her family home with her as a... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Hello dear reader (I know that I have a few at least)! First off, an update: The Lost Tomb of Omo is currently at twenty four thousand, five hundred and sixty one words, or about 1,500 words added over the last week. Due to health issues and time commitments between both Kim and Jess, I’m... Continue Reading →
I now officially have ten chapters written for The Lost Tomb of Omo! I printed the whole work in progress and it came to about forty double spaced and double sided pages, it was too thick to staple as one section! I always print hard-copies for review and revision. Call me old fashioned, but there... Continue Reading →
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