Entries Tagged as 'It's A Writing Life'

May 8, 2008

Website Update!

It’s only been a hundred years in the making, but I finally updated the site, including a excerpt of Guys and Dogs!
With life calming down at work, I might even be able to work on Happy Medium this week. Maybe. I still have that old nasty thing called housework. Yick!

April 1, 2008

Done.

81,500 words by page count, just over 68K by actual word count. Funny how those two numbers are always so far apart. At any rate, GUYS AND DOGS is done. Or as done as a first draft can get. Now I need to edit it, write a synopsis and a query letter. Sigh… done is [...]

March 28, 2008

Walking a Literary Tightrope

GUYS AND DOGS is almost done. We’re talking less than fifty pages, most likely. Well, unless I get wordy. And I never get wordy. Oh no.  The problem is not writing the pages, though - it’s what to put on them.
I laid in bed the other night trying to think like my antagonist. He’s got [...]

March 17, 2008

When Life Gets in the Way

Man, that’s the story of my life, isn’t it? And everyone I know. Life gets in the way of writing all the time. Either it’s the kids or the day job or whatnot. This month for me, it’s been the kids. But in a good way.
Son #1 participated in his first Special Olympics State Basketball [...]

March 6, 2008

Guys and Dogs - Stall Warning

I think some time ago I confessed that a few friends and I were going to do a NaNo sprint in March. It’s March now, right? And no, I’m not sprinting. In fact, this blog is the closest thing to writing I’ve done all week.
The good news about this is that none of my friends [...]

February 21, 2008

Guys and Dogs - Progress Report

Well, I just finished the first edit on what I had written in November on GUYS AND DOGS. The last few chapters were pretty fun to read, considering they were riddled with gems such as this:
“Well you said if I have friends over near dinnertime I should ask them to stay. Aren’t you going to [...]

November 30, 2007

Holy Crap

And when I say crap, I mean crap. But I won, even though the book is pretty much unsalvageable.
Whoo!

November 29, 2007

So Close

I normally finish up NaNo way sooner than this, but considering computer problems, redecorating my house, and having three kids, I think it may be amazing that I write anything. Almost there. Just about 3,000 more crappy words to go.

November 21, 2007

NaNo and a Reccommendation

Well, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and this afternoon we’ll be taking off south to see the Mother-in-Law. We’ve decided to take her to dinner tonight and leave her in her nice comfortable room at the nursing home for the actual holiday. She’s unfortunately gotten to a point where I cannot rely on her to remember us [...]

November 20, 2007

NaNo Update.

I’m officially behind, but getting kinda sorta caught up. Hoping for a miracle this weekend.