I heard that phrase recently in regard to a new podcast that’s out. With apologies, I don’t recall which podcast it is, but I loved the phrase because it succinctly encapsulates my approach to writing (and various other things) that I’ve been using for a while. Life and everything in it will rarely be perfect,…
Yesterday I broke the 31,000 word mark on my novel WIP. It’s not a ton, of course. It’s not even at the half-way point of the 80,000 words that conventional wisdom says is the “safe” range for an unestablished writer’s first novel. But as I recently mentioned, I’m into new territory with how long this…
I recently wrote about my choice to take a one-month hiatus from all social media (or rather, the scant social sites I’m on these days), and how that’s almost definitely going to be more widely permanent since I’d been listening to Jaron Lanier. If you haven’t taken the time to read that post of mine,…
I wrote just over 2500 words today. And that’s as of this writing, so there’s a chance (albeit slim) that I’ll be adding more, depending on how the rest of the afternoon and evening play out with the family. But hey, a new high. I’ll take that any day of the week. For the last…
… by which I mean that progress is a good thing as well as that I’m making good progress. In this particular case, on the planned novel. I had another 2000+ word day, perhaps even a new personal high at around 2200 words, which felt both unexpected and pretty good, given the usual slow down…
There’s a time in a parent’s life–I’m making a sweeping assumption here based on my own experience, but I’d bet money it’s accurate–that in raising their child(ren), they encounter not only toys that are particularly cool (with thoughts of, Man, I wish they had stuff this cool when I was a kid), but also revisit…
Social Medialess October isn’t a thing. But perhaps it should be. I finally quit Facebook a handful of months back after long intending to ditch it for good. It was more problems with the company’s unethical practices than anything. (What those specific items are aren’t particularly important; suffice to say, if you do even a…
I’m not a big believer in capital-s Signs. By which I’m not speaking of Shyamalan’s okay 2002 offering, but rather signs from, if you will, the… well… universe. We all know those people. The ones who feel as though one thing or another was clearly trying to tell them something. “The baby threw up on…
As I mentioned in my last post, the first draft of my first novel is going well. Meaning, as far as progression of the word count. As for the quality?That’s a whole other thing. I rewrote the opening three times, trying three different approaches with it, and it still feels weak. The inciting incident–a young…