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… Read More »How I Use Scrivener to Write a Novel Part Two
Every writer should be constantly reading about his craft or taking classes on improving his writing skills. This year I blew my budget on going to Norwescon, so I won’t be doing any more seminars. But that doesn’t mean I… Read More »Writing Books I’m Reading
Occasionally, I will install the latest version of Scrivener beta for Linux. It really hasn’t been very useful to me until now. But in messing around with it over the past few days, I can see that it has reached… Read More »Scrivener on Ubuntu
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… Read More »Starveyors Update, 23 April 2012
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.… Read More »Wind in My Sails Again
I spent some time this weekend adjusting my outline for the next four chapters. I need to do it all again in a few weeks to stay on course. Outlines are living documents that change as you write your novel.… Read More »WIP – Mid Novel Doldrums
This is the first part of a long, multi-post series on writing believable starfighters in Military SF and Space Opera. Too often writers don’t have an extensive knowledge of military vehicles and when they write Military SF that involves hardware,… Read More »Writing About Starfighters, Part 1
I’ve closed out a chapter and managed to get half-way through another. Somewhere shy of 2,000 words for the week. I wrote mostly during my lunch breaks and once in the morning. This weekend I need to kick it up… Read More »Writing Update – Starforgers
This weekend I started writing my fourth novel. It is the prequel to Starstrikers and it will be called Starforgers. This novel was attempted many years ago and then abandoned. I used the opening that I already had written when… Read More »Writing Commences
I wrapped up the last short story, “Slag” and started in on another. This one does not yet have a name but I will be submitting it to the Girls With Guns anthology this month. It features Devon Ardel and… Read More »Another Short Story