As I said in my review of my May goals, now that I've done a 2nd draft on A House Divided, I think I need to take some time away from it before I commence a 3rd. So, it seems to me that I can do one of four options. I can go back to… Continue reading Next Steps
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Cautious Optimism
We're now just over halfway through the month. So how am I doing with my goals? Well, there's a clue in the title of this post.... Out of the 5 goals I set for myself, I can definitely say I've completed 2 and am doing okay so far on another 2. I've already written (and… Continue reading Cautious Optimism
May Goals
Even though it didn't go as well as I'd hoped, I still think setting those goals in April was a good idea. Good enough that I'm doing the same for May. So here's what I want to get done in the next month. Keep improving my daily word count. Keep posting here on the blog… Continue reading May Goals
Counting Words
When the critique of House Valerius was done, my reviewer said that the book was a bit long but fine. And according to a lot of what I'm picking up, they might not be the only ones to think that. The word count for book 1, according to Microsoft Word is 137,300, in its current form. Now if… Continue reading Counting Words
Goals
Britt asked me yesterday what my goals were. Now she was asking about a different matter, but it got me thinking. Britt believes that stating your goals out loud is an important part of helping you to attain them. And, I can see her point. Like I said, it got me thinking that I should… Continue reading Goals
Re-drafting & re-writing
As I mentioned previously, in addition to the excerpts from the main series that I put on here I also recently posted some pieces of the short stories that I have in progress on the Wattpad site. As a result I've had some reads, a few compliments and, most importantly, some good constructive criticism. I have… Continue reading Re-drafting & re-writing
Deadlines
It's been a month or so since I hit save on my fist draft of A House Divided and since then I've been dividing the majority of my writing time between working on In Dreams, one of my short stories and doing some re-reading/editing/re-writing to come up with a second draft. (Usually the short story during… Continue reading Deadlines
Snippets
I ran a poll recently on my Twitter feed about whether or not to add some excerpts from the books. The results were 89% in favor of doing so. I also got a number of supportive comments about doing so. So now, I guess, having opened that box I have to be good as my… Continue reading Snippets
Books, books, books
As you'll see if you go to the books page, I've updated it a little, moving some things around. Instead of having the title as the link, I've put the links underneath like so... The synopsis link (I used that word because I couldn't think of a better one at the time) takes you to… Continue reading Books, books, books
Polling and progress
So I completed an initial draft on A House Divided earlier this week and as I said in a previous post I was debating what to do next. So I put a poll on my Twitter feed and on my Facebook page, just to see if there was any consensus between those of you good enough to… Continue reading Polling and progress
The Scribblings 