People tell you that editing a book is harder than you think but I’ve found that isn’t true for me. It’s just a hard as I imagined. I officially started working on the second draft last week as April reared its head, and am inching my way towards the second draft. The timeline and new outline helped me realize that with the action and focus being on one character, some major changes needed to take place, such as completely...

It took longer than expected but I’ve completed the reread of the novel and I can honestly say I don’t hate it. Full disclosure I like the story itself but I can tell it needs a lot of repairs for consistency, voice, grammatical editing, and a number of other tweaks, manipulations and adjustments. These are expected; it is my freshman novel and it is, well, a novel. These things don’t magically come out perfect. I...

I’ve spent the last few weeks working my way through the novel, driving myself just a hair crazier with each step. I feel like I’m slowly revealing the map on how to edit the thing, but it’s unnerving at times. I have notes, guidance, and advice from a number of sources, but it’s more akin to someone giving me advice about how to fly while leaving out the things like how to deal with wind, figuring out how to navigate the local...

It’s a random Friday and that means it’s guest post today!   I’ve considered serial fiction in the past and it’s in my future writing plans. To find this article from writer and friend Andrew Eckhart was a nice surprise. Andrew’s the writer of the novel Last Mage, written in a serial format over the past year.  Check out his story for examples of how he handles the style and pressure of writing stories...

2012. I’ll turn 29 this year, will celebrate the start of my fourth year of marriage, and shortly, welcome my first full novel into existence. That’s right it’s time we to start talking novels and projects again. I’ve been mentioning my current project here and there, but I’m going to share the full details of what’s going on now. I started this novel as a NaNoWriMo project two months ago. I won NaNoWriMo on the 20th of...

It began with a challenge. Two figures, standing hip deep in the slime, ichor and filth of a hobby dragging them further from their life’s goal. A call ripped out across the land, beckoning them back. A challenge appears. It lures them away from the murk and oil from their distraction. It refines their choices and guides them on the glory.  I speak, of course, of the wager between myself and one Andrew Eckhart. In the early days of...

A quick status update on a few projects: I’m back full swing into working on the blogs. I left off the end of July with a quiet week, but August starts back with gusto. I’ll be posting daily for the remainder of this month, especially a series on Fluffy Couple/Google Plus called “The Health Road to a Con.” They cover my detail on getting healthy during the month of August before my 2nd visit to Dragon*Con. The book is still in...

I can’t claim to have a perfect track record. Actually, I can probably claim to have an imperfect track record slowly be marred by being productive. July has been a period of consistency with posting on all of my blogs. Some day I’m going to need to download the dates of all of my posts and see how many periods of these “High activity,” I’ve managed and how long they stayed regular. Pity about that imperfect track record but I’m...