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10,000 Words!
I just hit a major milestone tonight. 10,250 words as of 9:45pm. With my end goal of 70,000 words, this means I’m likely around 1/7th of the way through my novel. Even though, I’m probably actually NOT 1/7th of the way through my novel, it feels like it, and so that’s what I’m sticking with […]
Moving the goal posts
I’m doing it again. I’m moving the goal posts. This time, it has nothing to do with being distracted by something new and shiny. This time, it has everything to do with being caught up in a lot of stuff every week, and needing a bit more time to breathe than I currently offer myself. […]
Hashimoto’s REVENGE!
Well, it’s official. I’m finally a full-fledged member of my family. I now have a legitimate thyroid disease. It’s a mainstay trademark of the Payne family, at least on my mother’s side. You just can’t go very long without some sort of thyroid problem. But for me, it’s a particularly appropriate disease. I have been […]
The re-colonization of like-minded gamers
Yeah, I know, blogging moratorium, interrupting my writing flow, yadda yadda — but this is important. I fled the Evil Avatar community a long time ago. Quietly, and under my own terms. There were a few reasons for this, not the least of which was the venom and disgust with which some members regarded any […]
Derailed!
My word count on my novel will be pathetically miniscule this week, as I have suffered a major setback. That setback was not medical, mental, or spiritual. It was merely a side-effect of my inability to focus on anything for any extended period of time. Sometime this past weekend, I caught on a great (or […]
Novel progress: week 1
I’m not going to make this a habit because I don’t want to attempt to switch too often between “blog writer” and “fiction writer” hats. It doesn’t hurt, but it kills my motivation. But I had to mark this occasion. Yesterday, I hit 4,300 words, which is just 50 words over my first week goal. […]
Track the progress of my novel
The outline is complete. I’ve now bolted down the first words in my second attempt at writing a novel (first attempt was for NaNoWriMo, and as far as I’m concerned, doesn’t actually count). So now, I need to be held accountable for actually getting this sorry scrap-heap of nonsense into an actual, honest-to-goodness palatable work […]
John Scalzi is a genius and I hate him for it
(I’m still on my blogging moratorium – but I needed to get this out while it was still swimming around in my head) I don’t really hate John Scalzi, but I do. I just finished The Last Colony the other night, and it was – as expected – completely excellent in every conceivable way. Indeed, […]
Don’t mind me, just hanging up the “gone writin'” sign
I would love to able to say that I’ve been “busy” lately, but that just isn’t the right word. Distracted is probably more appropriate. Between being glued to the Democratic National Convention speeches and pretending to write a novel, I just haven’t found the time to do much else besides surf and not blog. I […]