30,000 Word Challenge – Day 7
Man, I’m like the Red Sox when they play the Yankees this year: I’m just sweeping out the victories! ;P I got home from work a little bit later this evening. Rather than jump immediately into writing, I had a …
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30,000 Word Challenge – Day 6
Flawless Victory this evening. 3,461 words, bringing my total for the challenge so far to 18,004 in six days. Sweet. This evening was all SciFi Thriller. I really should come up with a title for it, considering I’m got over …
30,000 Word Challenge – Day 5
I’m up a lot later than I thought I would be tonight. And a lot later than I want to be, since I have to be at work in the morning. But I made a commitment to myself to make …
Cover – Done!
Well, the cover journey is now complete. Last night, I told Jeroen that we’re good to go and paypal’d (Not sure that’s a word; oh well, I made it up) him his money. So now we’re all set on the …
Masters Cover – Round 3
Ok, I got a lot of good feedback from people on the last two drafts Jeroen sent me of the cover for Masters. And so I’ll ask you guys for feedback on the third draft. I think this is …
Time Crunch
So I went ahead and gave myself a deadline for the follow-on to Passing in the Night, and a word count target: end of August, and 80,000 words. That works out to a bit less than 1,000 words a day. Totally …
Masters Cover – Round 2
Jeroen took my feedback from the first attempt and produced a modified cover: As you can see, he replaced the Eye of Sauron with two eyes, those of the big bad guy in the book, who’s associated with the sun …
Masters Cover Art – Round One
Jeroen came through with the cover art for Masters this morning. My first impression: wow! Since then, I’ve sent him some thoughts and comments, but I’m curious what all y’all in internet land think. Here it is: I’ve compressed it …
Longer Than I Thought
Yeah, yeah. I know. That’s what SHE said, right? Ha-freaking-ha. Ok, stupid jokes aside, I’m talking about one of my short stories. A few weeks back, I tried out the Write Or Die web application. Several people swear by it, …
Sample Sunday
After I got musically inspired, I thought about my new story idea and realized I need to do a LOT of research if I want to do the story right. So I’m getting started on that. But in the meantime, …