I am finally done the first draft of Undertaken! After a spate of writing over the last two days that amounted to over 10,000 words (almost 8,000 just today!) I have a manuscript totaling just under 126,000 words.

Let the editing begin!

We're taking Rachel back to New York for her second year at NYU tomorrow, and I may or may not have internet access while we're doing that--it's unclear. (I may have access purely through going to an internet cafe or some other place in public that has wifi if the place we're staying doesn't have access ( Read more... )

It's really eye-opening doing the research for my current writing project. Even though I grew up going to a funeral home for piano lessons (the organist there, who was married to the funeral director, was also the organist at our church, and I took lessons from her daughter, who was also an organ and piano teacher) I didn't really witness the ( Read more... )

I queried two agents today concerning Quantum Harry! So that's something. One just wanted a query letter, proposal and outline, while the other wanted all of that AND the first five chapters of nonfiction works, so I sent the Introduction and first four chapters (which amount to almost 60 pages). Both agents are on the record as interested in ( Read more... )

I worked on three different writing projects today that are in rather different stages:

1. I looked up ten agents who deal in nonfiction works, and specifically a couple that include "pop culture" in the list of topics they handle because I decided to query agents and publishers simultaneously for Quantum Harry, rather than just publishers. I also ( Read more... )

I've been trying to get my supplemental materials in order for my "new" writing project, which is really me picking up a writing project that I set aside to finish writing Quantum Harry, which is now with two alpha readers. (If you're interested in joining them, let me know ( Read more... )

I'm currently about 100 pages into a 250-page book (in ebook form, specifically Nook format) and I'm finally getting into it. In fact, now that I've learned a lot more about the title character, I'm probably unhealthily over-identifying with that character (because there is, of course, a HEALTHY way of over-identifying with a fictional character ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of doing a simultaneous final edit and footnoting operation on Quantum Harry, all 500 pages and 116,357 words of it. With any luck, it'll be ready for Alpha Readers soon ( Read more... )

Argo was certainly funnier than I expected! And nerve-wracking, too, even though we technically know how it turned out. (I've heard people had this issue with Zero Dark Thirty too, another movie you go into knowing the end, and yet it manages to be hugely suspenseful ( Read more... )

Working backwards on what I saw tonight (no planned spoilers, just lots of vaguery ( Read more... )