It's been a long time coming, but I've now completed my my novel! Chapter 132 (I know, right?) is scheduled to appear on the site tonight, and the final chapter will appear Friday morning.

And if that weren't all:

• I made arrangements for my trip to NYC, where I have a job interview
• I worked out an arrangement and backing for my first-ever song ( Read more... )

This happens sometimes to me. I have a pretty good idea of where I want the story to go, but the characters aren't cooperating and the next thing I knew they're running off and doing something else; something unexpected. Now sometimes I know that I don't want the story going that way, so I have to back up and add some other elements that will ( Read more... )

One of the perils of being publicly creative is bad reviews. For radioplays, that's rarely bothered me; I'm a sufficiently experienced actor that I can tell if I'm doing a poor job, and can usually fix it (and if it's bad it's the director / producer's fault anyway ( Read more... )

 For most of the thrice-weekly updates of Take a Lemon, I've had a very regular reader and commentator, who had even read the chapters before I posted them and gave me some very good feedback. He even had his daughter, whom he is home-schooling, read and leave her own comments, and the two of them discussed the story at the dinner table.

Not ( Read more... )

I'm sure I have mentioned to some of you that I am now writing a webnovel, based on last year's NaNoWriMo story. I added Google's Adsense to the site, which not only gives me the possibility (however theoretical) of earning some money, it also lets me see the site activity more easily than checking my access log. Well, up through last week, I had ( Read more... )

 In order to attract readers to my webnovel, I have started advertising on comic-nation. com using Project Wonderful. This is an advertising system that uses an ongoing auction. You decide the most you are willing to pay per day for your ad to appear, when and where you would like it to appear, and the total budget for your ad. If at any moment, ( Read more... )

Last November, I had reached the goal of 50,000 words in the NaNoWriMo challenge, working on a story that had been knocking around in my mind for well over a year. I didn't actually finish the story, which I estimated would probably be at least twice that long, and I really did want to finish it and have people read it.

To motivate me, I have now ( Read more... )

I just finished reading the novel, Wicked - you know, the retelling of the Wizard of Oz story from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West.  My first impression, having ventured into novel-writing as part of NaNoWriMo, is of the richness of the descriptions of scenery and individuals. By contrast, my own effort now feels like a crude pencil ( Read more... )