I purchased the WriteWay program a while back and began using it for the novel I was working on at the time, Soul Stone. It was an improvement over the yWriter program (at least, the version that was circulating at the time) and overall, I liked it. It was a good way to organize things and move them around if necessary. You could search for ( Read more... )

I spent this evening doing some minor research on dog mauling, since I've been fortunate enough never to have experience that or known anyone who has. I was a little wary of Googling the topic, since I wasn't sure what kinds of graphic pictures and tales I would find. But I decided to look at whatever might be available and helpful, regardless of ( Read more... )

My novel project is moving very very slowly. Since I mapped out where the story is going, I managed to finish Chapter 8, put it away for a little while, then go over it again. It might seem like progress, but the chapter was half written when I petered out the last time, and all in all, it's not very long. 2958 words. I've also made some notes  ( Read more... )

Hehe, I was just reading over my last post and laughing about the irony of it. I was writing about being clear and to the point in my horror novel, but the post itself seemed to be all over the place. I was the one who wrote it, and I still had a hard time following it. Oh well, it wasn't one of my better days, apparently.

Meanwhile, I did manage to ( Read more... )

I haven't posted anything in a while. But then, not much has happened since I returned to work. I don't get much done in the way of writing during the week. I managed to get everything I've written so far on my horror novel loaded in yWriter before I returned (I'm not sure how helpful the program will be by the end, but I'm going to give it a shot ( Read more... )

I have made a decision. I am going to take out my "Untitled Thriller" that I haven't touched in ages and start working on it again. It came about as I was trying to sort out my next writing project. The more I thought about my new plot idea, the one about ghosts and time, the more I realized that I was never going to fit that kind of a plot into a ( Read more... )