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...

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...

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...

So far the first post on this blog, let me start by saying last week I wrote a total of 6215 words toward the current project. This brings us roughly to about 25,000 words. That’s roughly 25%(+/-5%) towards the goal of 100,000 words And they’re all due by the end of August. Baring in mind that most people who come to the blog in the future will not be scrolling back to read this post, I’m not going to bother with a heavy introduction...