Apparently there is a magic story length that exists and when I write a story of that magic length, I get a fabulous "finished story" feeling afterward. I do not get this feeling with shorter short stories. But I do get it after writing longer/longish short stories or very long novels. Not sure that 3000 words really cuts it, but 5000 and up does, for some reason. July 2015 was a terrible month for me, for various reasons. I have chronicled the difficulties of the month and how I still managed ... View Post
Giving Myself Permission to JUST. WRITE.
You may have noticed I am blogging significantly less than I used to. At the very least, I used to be pretty good about my Writing Prompt Wednesday posts. But not so these days. These days I can scarce keep up with my monthly goal posts and monthly what-in-the-crap-did-I-actually-do-this-month posts. Part of this is due to me now writing on a weekly basis for Doctor Who Watch (thus, less time for my own blogging). Part of this is due to the fact that blogging takes up a great deal of energy for ... View Post
It's Entirely All in the Name. Everything. Seriously.
So my work on editing PRIMUS has come to a screeching halt of late, so much so that I should really update my May Project List to more accurately reflect my suddenly-changed priorities. What caused this sudden change in priorities? The realization that I really do have extremely limited time to write. The realization that it's currently May, and my self-set deadline for self-publishing my novella "The Hound of God" is in August. Calculating what needs to still be accomplished on the novella ... View Post
This Thing I Like to Call "Passive Editing" and How It Works…
Back in February I made a post outlining my Grand Master Plan for editing my 500+ page novel. Now it is April, and as some of you know, April is Camp NaNoWriMo. For Camp this year, I made the goal of spending 30 hours (or more) editing my novel for April. On April 1st, I began. In keeping with my Grand Master Plan, I am now in Phase One. Phase One involves what I've taken to calling "Passive Editing". Now, usually when I edit something, I go line by line and brutally analyze every single word. ... View Post
The Take-Away Message from Planet Comicon: THEY SAID "YES" (… but no, he did not go to Jared's …)
No, I am not talking about proposals, here. Or ... maybe I am. Just not the marriage type. The business type. More accurately, the OPPORTUNITY type. Over the weekend of March 13 - 15th, I attended Kansas City's local comicon, dubbed Planet Comicon, to be official. I was most excited about this year's first-time guest panelists to Planet, Nerd For a Living. So excited, in fact, I even took off work early on Friday JUST FOR THEM! Why do they deserve some of my vacation time? Because they are ... View Post
My Evil Grand Master Plan of Editing: An Uncertain Attempt to Manage the 500-page Novel Without Going Insane …
Most of you probably know that one does not simply write a book and then publish it. I hope. *looks around suspiciously* Anyway, after 19 long months of slaving away over my novel Primus' rough draft, the next step is, of course, to edit the darn thing. But it's so large, the idea of going through it line by line is somewhat, well ... overwhelming. But! I think I have a plan. A long time ago, I attempted to edit one of my finished rough drafts. Basically, this editing attempt included me ... View Post
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