I’ve started writing my novel again. Or, rather, I should say that I’ve started to plan my novel again. I’m rethinking it from the ground up, reconsidering all my assumptions, destroying all the ground rules that I had drafted without much consideration before. In my first draft, I had an amazing opening scene that was [...]
I had applied to be a writer for an online company that provided writing services. After some research, I discovered that there was no legitimiate business beyond providing essays to college students, which I think is a deplorable practice. Because of how easy it is for an online publisher (blogger) like myself to have their [...]
Subtitled “The Writer’s Guide to Making More Money,” Kelly James-Enger’s book about freelancing is a good introduction to becoming your own boss and freelancing full time. If you are already a freelance writer, you might get a few nuggets of wisdom from this book, but for the most part this book is aimed at the [...]
I’ve been brainwashed over the years by listening to a few distinguished published writers talk about how they don’t outline. They say they get a general idea for a story and they let it go where it will. I had an idea for a story. I eventually called it Dark Glass, and I have about [...]
I posted this on the Vanguard forums, but I figured I’d throw it up here since it has universal meaning. I think it depends on your definition of insanity, but people have been killing each other for centuries. Yeah, society is indifferent. How can you maintain compassion when your “tribe” is 6 billion people? The [...]
While writing for NaNoWriMo, I’ve become more familiar with Microsoft Word. In fact, I’ve only been using Office 2003 for a few months, and there are quite a few differences between it and the old Office 2000 I’d been using. One thing I’ve noticed is that some common words aren’t included in the dictionary: for [...]
So far I’m on track with regards to NaNoWriMo. I’m actually a few hundreds words ahead today, but I need to write even more to make up for the inevitable slacking I’ll be doing this weekend. The novel is progressing nicely. Our hero, Eric Tougard, has escaped from the FBI and is looking to pick [...]
Ok, I wrote an entry and then accidentally hit backspace. Anyway, it’s the first day of NaNoWriMo, and I’m going to get started here shortly. Current word count: 0!
WritingScheduler widget version 0.2. The old version was 0.1; this is an incremental release. Basically what the widget does is track (in my case) word counts towards a goal. For example, I had a personal writing goal of 50,000 words in 31 days. The widget takes your data (50k words, the goal end date and [...]
Yeah, I haven’t been keeping y’all up to date with my writing. I’ve been blowing it off for a couple weeks because of all the NaNoWriMo stuff. I’ve also been distracted planning a European trip. Aside note: If you have opinions on some great cities/spots to visit in Europe (everything west of Russia is fair [...]