It’s that time. Thirty thousand words (roughly 100 pages) in and I’ve hit the wall. I knew it would happen, you do nano more than once and you come to expect it. Doesn’t mean that it’s any less of a pain-in-the-ass, it just means I knew it...
Arg. The past ten days have been exhausting! I’ve been going back and forth between Comcast and my hosting company because this weird bug showed up that prevented me from accessing my website. Since it happened when I installed the new modem Comcast sent me, I...
So, I’m in the middle of rewrites and chapter 3 is on deck. I have been stuck on this section of conversation since Friday: Kai nodded, uncomfortable and embarrassed. “You and that troublesome sense of honor. You want them to respect you,” he gestured with his head...
I’m having a day where I’m hating everything I’ve written or am trying to write. For example, I’ve just begun revising my third chapter and I hate the first sentence. It’s not a bad first sentence – as first sentences go –...
I was thinking the other day about my writing process and the surprises that come with it, and it reminded me of the parable about golf balls in the jar. From now on I’m using it as the go-to analogy of my process because it really is a perfect fit: Photo by...
