Elipses … Sees “The End”

It was a banner morning in the Collins basement. “Elipses …” is together, and through second draft. I really works for me, though I feel that the last two or three paragraphs need to be crafted a bit more. Yesterday I was also thinking the title might need to be reworked again, but this morning […]

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On Stranglehold and Relativity

It’s fair enough to say that the first draft of “Holes in the Ground” is complete–though I’ve decided its new title is “Ellipses…” We’ll see how that works for a bit. I think I like it. As can happen, finishing this draft has caused me a little set-back because I learned a little more about […]

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Another day …

… another thousand words. “Holes” is moving along well and may perhaps be done through first draft tomorrow–maybe Friday. It’s now a matter of time rather than raw creativity. I’ve again found it works for me to write in the basement. I know, I know. I knew it before, why did I go away from […]

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Focus

I was at lunch yesterday and overheard a few snippets of conversation between four guys at the table next to me. They were talking about health care, and apparently having a great time swapping scenarios and complaining about various things. I admit I tried not to listen, focusing instead on the story I’m working on. […]

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A Week Off

Geez–it’s been awhile, hasn’t it? So, what’s up, you ask? Or, I guess, seeing that it’s just me and me here, I must be the one asking. The good news, though, is that I’ve been vacationing this week–but not really vacationing. You see, due to the discrepancy in our jobs Lisa has a bit less […]

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Finished

Galmour of the God-Touched is finally done and comes in weighing just over 92K words. It feels pretty good to get a book-length work to the point I feel good about it again.  The rust is falling off, slowly but surely.

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Milestone Achieved

I don’t consider myself to have ever really stopped writing, though it looks like it from the outside, and I certainly stopped publishing.  I’m thinking a lot about this lately as I draw to the end of this novel rewrite.  If I come up with any great understandings about why I think this, I’ll let […]

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100 Pages

So I’ve gotten down to under a hundred pages to go.  With only a little luck I’ll complete the rewrite by the end of next week.  It’s been more work than expected because, honestly, my line writing was not very good.  Strange how time gives you distance.  There was a time where I would have […]

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Chapter 19

So I got to Chapter 19 and everything went off the wire. I mean…yeah…ok. Let me start from the semi-beginning because I know so many folks are reading this that you forget a few things. Part, the First: Rather than start this new writing kick by doing something small, like a short story, I decided […]

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Simple Goals

I have given myself a goal. This goal thing works for me. I don’t know why. I mean, I should be able to just sit down and write as a general course of action, but for me I’ve always needed a goal that I believed in to really make something stick. My goal came about […]

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