Tag: Novel

Going Traditional for The Rising

Oliver Hammond via Compfight I’ve self-published all of my novels up until now. But for my next novel, I’ll be going the traditional route. At least until it’s abundantly clear that I still suck at writing. If I get through…

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First Draft of Starveyors Complete

Yesterday I finally finished the first draft of Starveyors. It feels like I’ve been writing this one forever, probably because I started it in January. I will now let it sit for a few weeks before hammering on the second…

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Five Thousand Words to Go

Anna Fischer via Compfight I’ve got about 5K words to write to get to the end of Starveyors. I’d like to finish it here in Middle Tennessee and come home with a completed first draft. That may or may not…

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Novel Progress and Laptop Woes

Milind Alvares via Compfight I’ve crossed the halfway marker in total word count this week for Starveyors, my Work In Progress(WIP). Sitting at around 44,000 words and counting. Progress through this middle part of the novel had been slow. Not…

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How I Use Scrivener to Write a Novel Part Two

Part One This is the second part of my two part blog post on using Scrivener to write a novel. I covered some useful things in part one, so if you haven’t read that yet you might want to, it…

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Starveyors Update, 23 April 2012

Photo Credit: Oliver Hammond via Compfight After taking a few weeks off from the novel, I’m back to writing again as of this weekend. Saturday I read through the last few chapters I had written and then that evening I…

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Wind in My Sails Again

Photo Credit: darwin Bell via Compfight I’ve made my way out of the mid-novel doldrums and my sails are filling out. I’m still only at 46% complete, but I’ve moved out of the funk I was in with the story….

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Unseen Art of a Novel

Many times while producing a novel I’ve had artwork generated that was never seen in the final production. Some of that art was intended for covers, some of it was intended to help me keep things straight in my head,…

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