Category: Writing

This week I’ve been cruising along on chapter 3 but have only written a few scenes. Some of these scenes are but skeletons that will be fleshed out in the second draft when I start to make connections to later…

Those of you who regularly come to this blog are probably already aware that I have a monthly newsletter called Dispatches. I’ve been mentioning it more regularly in my social media these days. There is a reason for this. I’m…

This week I wrapped up chapter 2 and realized that it too needs some fixing. But rather than stop and fix it, I’ll keep pushing on into chapter 3. Chapter 2 is where we are introduced to the villain –…

I didn’t get much writing done this week, maybe a couple thousand words all week. Part of that was due to real life interrupts and part of it was due to me having to mull over my villain a bit…

I didn’t get to write every day this week as I kept a few lunch dates with coworkers. Sometimes the writing that I did get to do went smoothly and sometimes I struggled to imagine the scene I was writing,…

In the form of a blue line. I just wanted to let folks know that I’m keeping track of my progress on this novel. You can find the progress bars on the main page of this website. The next novel I’m to…