This was me last Friday …”IT LIVES!!!”Yes, at long last, Franken-first-draft has been completed! It came in at 84k words, about 10k more than I want. Pretty typical for me. I can knock that back, no problem. I hit all the plot points in my sketchy...
To everyone who reached out to me and sent me well wishes last week – thank you! I did recover from the sinus infection, and I got all my grades turned in on time. I also completed my first pass through THE INQUISITOR’S MARK, making the revisions requested in just...
Chris Fries — this post is for you! (Or inspired by you, at least.)Last week, I posted a blog about “fitting it all in” — how I juggle a teaching job, a writing career, and a family. Chris commented on how intense it all was and wondered: What...
Last week, I was feeling a little depressed. I had just turned in editorial revisions for THE EIGHTH DAY. The manuscript was off to the copy-editing department, and now I had to face my draft of THE EIGHTH DAY #2. And I couldn’t stand to look at it. The first...
Just so you know, I wanted to find a pictureof Brutus killing Caesar, as that seemed moreappropriate, but I couldn’t find a good one.We all have to do it at some point. Maybe it’s a realization you’ve come to on your own, or something your critique partners have...
I’m still working under a deadline for THE EIGHTH DAY, so this is a pictorial essay on Why You Don’t Give Up.In the 1960s, my story-telling was — let’s say — full of stereotypes, like dragons and damsels-in-distress.Not much survived the...
