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 […]

I’m happy to note that Five Magics, my collection of five short stories is now officially available as a nice little paperback. This is a project I’ve had on the back-burner for far too long, but makes me happy because, while I haven’t been writing a lot of sword and sorcery short stories in a […]

I’m writing this a little bit early, so I’m giving myself a little more credit that I deserve—meaning I’m claiming 1,000 words. I’m really at just north of 500, but I’m charging on and I imagine I’ll get there pretty soon. It’s just that my brain needed a break and I wanted to write this […]

Geez. Like, um, what day is it? Early Morning Session Doing a bit of pseudo live blogging this one, let me note that I have been working in roughly three chunks of time each day. There’s the Early Morning Session (where I often do low-grade work that is achievable while a cat lays on my […]

I got a few hundred more words in yesterday, and then today had one of my better days of the month, “finishing” with 2,400 new words and maybe 1,000 on the recycle scale—which is kind of my “Who’s Line is It” of metrics. I mean, recycle points don’t matter, but I track them anyway. The […]