Archive for June, 2009

Ho hum

Apparently I haven’t much to say right now. I am freakishly busy on the design side right now, and the writing is taking such a back seat that the caboose has decoupled from the train. I’ll get back to it, and this here blog, but in the meantime … talk amongest yourselves.

Filedby.com update

A couple of weeks back wrote about a new online promotion resource for authors called Filedby.com. At the time they advertised that they would allow “contributors” to also create a page to showcase their works. I created a page for myself, but found I could not add the books on which I had contributed design [...]

Home again…

I’m back! I made it to 26,483 words. But if Steven King is to be believed, 10% of them will have to go. On rereading some of the new stuff, I already see places where I need to rewrite — do much more showing, and much less telling.  I keep reminding myself that it is [...]

More words.

Today I am 433 words into my third 3,000 word chunk. Though I got a slow start I’m pleased with how it’s going. I hope I can keep up the pace, with adding at least another 1,000 words a day until the first draft is done. I have just under 24,000 now and I had [...]

Progress on the writing…

Some progress anyhow. I’ve mostly finished the plot. And I’ve added about 3500 words. Mostly good words too. I hope! So it goes. More work to do.

Motivation

My daughter left me this motivator on my desktop this morning. She’s so funny. Off to the airport to send her home and back here to write my tush off. Click on the thumbnail to read her message.

By the way the software you’re looking at here is called Scrivener (for Mac only, sorry).  It is [...]

Write? Wrong.

My (lack of) writing progress. Well… the first full day of my writing retreat was pretty much a bust. There was a houseful of people and that wasn’t planned. The air conditioning broke down, and a new one was installed, which took all day.  (It’s Las Vegas. AC is not optional.) And the cleaning crew [...]

Wo0T! I am published!

I literally just got the acceptance email. OK, for no money, but still. I had my poem “Clean Sweep” selected to run in the November issue of The Shine Journal! Oh wait, it says $5. Not only am I published, but I’m getting paid!
Woot! That’s a good way to start my writing vacation. [...]

Nanowriweek?

This may be crazy, but I’m doing it anyway. Some of my friends know that I’ve been working on a young adult novel—off and on—but more off than on. Unfortunately. So, I am taking a week off from my designing duties to just write. A novel in a week? (Nanowriweek.) Well, no. I’m not that [...]

And the winner is…

Number 2! The author and I had chosen number 2 before our little poll went up. (Not that my choice has anything to do with it!) It’s great to see that the vast majority of the commentors agreed with us. I’m quite happy with this sunny, funny, and cute cover. And Judy is excited too. [...]