Morning Update (7:02AM) – Got a cool 2,064 words this morning, or just over 1,000 words an hour of effort.  And I’m certain these are some really good words.  The story at this point is getting depth that wasn’t totally there  in the earliest stages of the work.  Not surprising, of course, when you think […]

Congrats to young Nick-o for completing his 50K!   Morning Update (7:06 am) – Two major scenes of progress this morning, and over 1500 words of true progress.  Counting a tiny bit of rewriting, my pace is up to somewhere around 900 words an hour, which is the strongest indicator that I’ve actually got a […]

Morning Update (7:32 AM) – Something over 1,200 words this morning, and the work is actually flowing pretty well.  I would say that for the past two weeks my work on this book has been a case of “two-steps forward, one step back.”  But the past 24 hours things seem to have improved to maybe […]

We had a great long weekend, with Brigid and Nick joining us Thursday afternoon through Sunday afternoon.  Did some wedding planning (well, I did wedding cake and wedding reception dinner tasting, Brigid and Lisa did the wedding planning).  Always great to have the kids here.  I know Nick got some words in, and I got […]

First Report (1:27 PM) – Overall I guess I can’t complain, though I will. I managed a bit over 2K words this morning, which gets me up to nearly 37,000 words for the whole. But I admit that the work today was difficult in an odd way. I have a plan for where I want […]

Congrats to Lisa on cresting the 50K mark! You just can’t beat her, you know? # Morning (7:00 AM) – It was a good morning, with just over 1,400 words logged. The main character has gotten himself fully ensnared, and it looks bad for him. Wonder how he’ll get out of this one? On a […]

Morning (7:04) – Picked up a good 1,098 words this AM. Not Silverthornian, but I’m not complaining. the main character is in peril, and a plan has been launched to save him even if he doesn’t quite know it. Tiny plot obstacle will need to be overcome here at my next sitting, but it _should_ […]

Morning (7:13) – Managed an official 959 morning words via the Microsoft Word judge. The second character, Kinji Hall, takes a step back and ties into her support infrastructure in the form of a night out with a best friend. she’s not feeling good about something, and the friend is going to help her see […]

Five tough hours, only about 300 words or so in productive moving forward. I have done a lot of thinking through motivations of the “big bad guys” here today, though.  The problem here stemmed from me asking myself a fairly simple “what if” question about an AI element of the world I’m creating.  The answer […]

Managed a hair’s breadth less than a thousand words this morning, the good news and bad news is that a lot of this was an expository dump of story infrastructure in almost outline level detail.  It’s bad news in that I’ll need to go back and expand it out–present it in better and more interesting […]