Last day of NaNoWriMo and a tough one for me. Last night I fell asleep mid-sprint and banged my head against my monitor. Unsurprisingly, I’m tired today. I need about 4,300 words to complete NaNoWriMo with a win. That’s a lot of words by midnight tonight. Fortunately I have a secret weapon: dictation. I use…

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving! I ended up relaxing a bit more than I anticipated. My Internet went out in the morning and has remained out. Since yesterday was Thanksgiving, I decided to give myself the day off to enjoy the day. Today I will find my way to a cafe and write there….

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope your day is filled with love and gratitude. I spent much of yesterday working on my hard drive, which corrupted. Again. It’s basically a delicate Victorian lady, likely to swoon if anyone fiddles with its plugs or if it experiences sudden shutdowns, or anything else that might interrupt its smooth operation….

For the last year I’ve been tempted by the MasterClass products. You have surely seen these advertised. Patterson teaching writing; Steve Martin teaching comedy; and so forth. My friends told me that they put the All Access Pass on sale near Black Friday, so I’ve patiently waited. The wait is over. A friend and I…

One of the reasons I take Mondays as non-writing days is that I usually deliver my short story to Dean on Sunday and am coming down into the short story completion crash following the short story completion high. The enemy cracks his knuckles, laughs low, and begins his work. By the time he’s done I…

Just five days left of NaNoWriMo, or four days if I don’t include today. Four days to write 11,000 words. It’s not impossible, but it is challenging. And obviously this is the week I take up the challenge. I delivered my short story to Dean last night but it was a bit of a mess….

Short blog post today because I have to complete and send a short story to Dean, clean the house (if what I do can be termed “cleaning”), prepare food, and game with company today. I’m stacked and behind. Yesterday I didn’t get as much done as I wanted. I went to the Memphis Writers meeting…

I’ve had problems with WordPress this morning, so this post is a bit late. Remember how I said that I finalized the cover for “Lightning Scarred” yesterday? Well, it was semi-finalized. I checked several other short stories on Amazon and realized that the covers had the words “a short story” on them, so I added…

Not a lot of writing yesterday but I am not too behind. I can still win NaNo if I write 2,200 words a day. Instead of writing I finalized the full-sized cover for “Lightning Scarred” and formatted the internal text. I’ve made it available to Steve and Max for their comments. Next step is to…

Yesterday the words came hard, but I did get a few. What I worked on instead was incorporating comments from the proofreader into “Lightning Scarred” and other writing-adjacent activities, plus errands. In addition to the novel, I’m also working on a short story for Dean, which is coming slowly. I’m challenging myself to write in…