Category: Writing Life

Writing accomplishments: Well, I went to the monthly creative meet-up of the Yolo County NaNoWriMo group — there were just two of us for nearly three hour...

Writing accomplishments: worked on the query for ALL GREMLINS (C1) — I’m really tempted to leave this sentence in: “I am a former veterinarian...

Writing accomplishments: Finished the most recent round of edits and uploaded ALL ROCS (C2) to the Word Forge critique group. Now I can forget about it for a mo...

Writing accomplishments: Doing a final read-through of ALL ROCS (C2) on my Kindle before I hand it off to the Word Forge critique group. The good: Reading it on...

Writing accomplishments: Submitted the first two chapters of ALL BASILISKS (C3) to YWC. (I realized the deadline isn’t until next week, but it was ready s...

Writing accomplishments: Finished addressing the notes on ALL ROCS (C2) — YAY! I still need to make another pass through the entire manuscript to make sur...

Writing accomplishments: Addressed seven of the fourteen remaining notes on ALL ROCS (C2). I should be able to finish them tomorrow and then make another quick ...

I’ve been struggling lately to add some needed information to clarify the plot without messing up the flow of existing dialogue. It’s hard. Today I ...

Writing progress: More edits on ALL ROCS (C2). I’m down to 15 notes and almost all of them are related to a part of the plot that was very fuzzy when I wa...

Writing accomplishments: Worked on notes from ALL ROCS (C2) — I’ve gotten through about half of them now. I think the dreaded chapter five is almost...