If you followed my semi-regular blogging over the past two months you’ll know that I completed what I eventually called a “RelaxaDare.” This is a riff off the traditional Novel Dare where a writer does their best to complete a novel draft in a month. The “Relaxa” part of that was that instead of a […]

So, yeah. I finished draft one of the STARDUST today. And I like it. Yay me! Technically I also finished about 25% of the final pass—but mostly because I’ve already done a second pass of the first 70% of the book, give or take, which I’ve documented elsewhere. I’d guess the full second pass will […]

I can’t begin to tell you how insane the past week has been. I mean. Insane with a capital Insane level of insane. All of it good, though. Which is a pleasant change of pace. I’ll talk about only one element right now, and that is that as a result of a well-supported Book Bub […]

I’m still going today, but I’m at a break point, so here we are. A couple days ago marked my 125th straight day of hitting writing targets. Or my 121st if you want to get technical, seeing as I took four days off of creating words in order to instead work on an intense planning […]

Another two-day update. Such is life. First, the simple numbers. I’m at that point where word count almost doesn’t matter. I mean, I’ve “added” about 1,000 more words to the bulk of things, but most of the past two days have been knitting bits together. I am coming to the point where I’ll take off […]

I think I misnamed yesterday as 35 when it should have been 34. Shrug. Regardless, I’m quickly “catching up” to where I left off on the first pass. Made it through about 5K words of “recycling,” and added 1500 to the total. Connections are being made and velocity is being attained. The book officially crossed […]

I have to laugh at myself. Every day I finish up thinking that “well, tomorrow I’m set to make some real ground!” And to be fair, I am making good ground. Still, I’m finding that perhaps the idea of scheduling twelve projects to happen kind of all at once is maybe not the best thing […]

I suppose a few days without an update could be cause for some concern, but let me assure you the issue is really with available time more than anything else. As always it seems, I’m working on lots of projects at once, juggling production work, “marketing plans” and other such tasks. I just did a […]

I have now scientifically determined that it takes exactly 17.987 forevers for Amazon’s system to process a book.#writing #amnotwriting — Ron Collins (@roncollins13) March 29, 2022 For reasons noted above, I managed only a paltry 300 new words yesterday. Still, progress is progress and I shall not be more than the tiniest but bothered by […]

Written Yesterday I’m coming to grips with the idea that this whole Dare is an exercise in exactly how much other stuff one can do while still progressing a novel in a “reasonable” time. Bottom line, it turns out I did not deserve the benefit of the doubt I gave myself yesterday in that I […]