I finished the first draft of Their Currents Turn Awry this past Monday. Ever since then my brain has been nagging me. "Why aren't we writing? Why aren't we writing ( Read more... )

Yesterday I finished the first draft of Sunspin book two, Their Currents Turn Awry. This wrapped at 149,100 words, which represents 82,500 new words since April 1st, working from an existing stub of 66,600 words ( Read more... )

In no particular order ( Read more... )

Last night I slept eight and half hours. Then I got up and went for a two-hour walk this morning, including the hidden canyon stretch of the Springwater Trail. I always feel good when I'm walking like that, which makes me wonder why I don't do it more often.

While down in the greenery, I ran across these two gentlemen:


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Just because. From the 3,500 words I laid down yesterday. Usual disclaimers about first draft apply.

( A bit of WIP, as promised… )

I managed to bang out 4,600 words on Their Currents Turn Awry yesterday. I was feeling a little uneasy about my days-long hiatus from working on the book, though I recognize logically enough that the combination of the port removal surgery and the fourth anniversary of my cancer was deeply distracting ( Read more... )

I'm off to Omaha again. A bit short-slept, eager to be back on Their Currents Turn Awry after a weekend of cancer echoes and chest pain. We shall see. Blogging and email service may be irregular.

Whatever you're doing this week, be well.

Four years ago today I was admitted to the hospital with copious rectal bleeding, which turned into my cancer diagnosis ( Read more... )

I'm off in a couple of hours to the clinic to have my chest port removed, for the second time. It's a very minor outpatient procedure lasting less than an hour under local anaesthetic only. Which involves a doctor and a nurse digging about in my chest for most of that time, via an entry wound just close enough to my right clavicle that I can't ( Read more... )

Yesterday I finished the latest chunk of Their Currents Turn Awry, Sunspin volume 2. The manuscript now stands at 119,200 words, and I figure on adding about 30,000 more words with the last chunk. I'm definitely wrestling with some plot timing and sequencing issues, but that's absolutely a problem for revision. I am also emerging from the natural ( Read more... )