The NaNoWriMo challenge is over. Shifter Born is in the editor’s hands for the final round and I took the holiday weekend off to party with some old and dear friends.
Now we are in the holiday season and for many of us, that means making lists, sorting priorities and focusing our attention on edits.
I was [...]
Entries from November 2009
November 30, 2009
Edit Time
November 23, 2009
NaNoComplished!
This past week was hectic to say the least. As I mentioned in my last post, I was on a roll with my NaNoWriMo novel and this all came to a head, early Saturday Morning.
I woke up at 3:30 in the morning with images and dialogue running through my head. Nothing would do but I [...]
November 17, 2009
On A Writing Role
Wow! I’ve been on a roll, today. I’m finally into the really exciting ‘meat’ of Cloud Dancer. This is one of the parts I’ve been waiting and so far, I like how it’s come out.
It was rather hard to imagine an air-sea battle between a destroyer and an airship. After all, even in the early [...]
November 11, 2009
A Change of Pace
I was spinning my wheels a bit, while trying to write and I realized I had only a very vague idea of what the Cloud Dancer looked like. This was not acceptable, so I took some time to draw up a rough sketch that gave me an idea of proportion, crew size, armaments, etc.
So, it [...]
November 10, 2009
Ain’t Nuthin’ Bettah!
One of my weaknesses involves apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, etc…
This just came out of the oven a few minutes ago!
Thanks, Bren!
November 9, 2009
Day Nine of NaNo
Wow! Time passes when you’re having fun! It has been a week since my last post and I’m now up to over seventeen thousand words in Cloud Dancer.
So far, there have been two romantic interludes, two battle sequences, many historical references and some required expository text. Things are shaping up nicely and I’ve not even [...]
November 2, 2009
NaNo Day Two
Well, I managed to break six thousand words in the NaNo challenge this evening. It would have been better to hit my initial goal of eight thousand, but I got sidetracked.
It seems that there were several spots where my memory failed and I had to do some quick historical research. That led to adding a [...]
November 2, 2009
NaNo Count
As of shortly before midnight, last night, I made it to 5070 words. Not bad for a first day, but I wouldn’t recommend it for a daily run.
November 1, 2009
Off to a Flying Start
Today is the first day of the NaNoWriMo challenge and I started at midnight, last night.
So far, I’ve added over a couple of hundred words to my note file along with a half dozen more URLs for research as I get deeper into the tale.
The word count on my actual novel file is up to [...]
