Impatience
One of my continuing challenges I have is my impatience. I am impatient with my career. I am impatient when I read. And I am impatient when I write. One of the things I have tried to temper when I Read more…
A Personal Thanks
I would like to take a moment to thank my wife, Dea, for her unending support, not just in art, but in life. I’ve had Crohns disease for over half my life and, sadly for her, our entire marriage. This Read more…
Pet Peeve
I hate wasting my time. It’s a pet peeve. Just ask my kids. The two main lines they knew not to cross were: don’t disrespect my wife (their mother) don’t waste my time. I’m not saying all of the time Read more…
Word Count & Novella 3 (Really 2)
I finally finished the first draft of Skyway, one of the novellas of our five novella series. It’s placement in the series has shifted, as I mentioned before, moving from novella #2, to novella #4. The current word count is Read more…
Book Cover Overlap
Book covers are one of the most important components to getting a potential reader to check out your book. Especially in the online, thumbnail world of perusing ebooks, people really do judge the book by its cover. One of the Read more…
Independent Publishing
It’s time to dump the term “self-publishing.” Lets call it what it really is, independent publishing. A decade ago, the only legitimate way to get your book to the masses was through the traditional publishing houses. Sure, there were some Read more…
Word Count & Nearing the Finish Line
Getting over the hump sure has helped. In a little over a week I was able to write 10,000 words and probably have another 3,000 ahead of me before putting Skyway aside. As I mentioned in a previous blog post, Read more…
Shifting and Shuffling
Funny thing about writing. It’s a lot like life. Just when you think you’ve got it all planned out, it changes right before your eyes. I’m nearing the completion of the second novella Skyway in our five novella Gabby Wells Read more…
Word Count & Getting Over the Hump
This week was a tough one, writing-wise. As mentioned on our last podcast, the second novella, Skyway, takes place over a continuous 36 hour period. Because of this limitation and a lot of the moving parts having to do with Read more…
Word Count & Rewrites
I did a lot of writing, but not that added a lot to the word count. I did add a couple of thousand words to Skyway, but spent most of the time re-writing The Homecoming Incident based on our Beta Read more…
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