It's been a while since I've posted about my writing ( Read more... )

So, as it turns out, that final read-through is taking me a bit longer than planned. I still have 90 pages to go out of 250-ish, and then I have to go back and fix one inconsistency that I found ( Read more... )

So Nanowrimo is over. And I finished the novel in November for once - just barely - as noted in my previous post ( Read more... )

As of this evening, my novel has hit 75,736 words ( Read more... )

There is still, as always, something special about stepping inside that voting machine and throwing the huge lever across to sink in your vote. There is something even more special about casting a vote in what will be, either way, a historic Election Day. Everywhere I go, I hear stories about people who woke up when the polls opened, who waited an ( Read more... )

I think I may finally have finished the rough draft of the novel I began during NaNoWriMo back in November. As some of you may recall, I hit 50,000 words - the word count needed to "win", then sort of stopped mid-book ( Read more... )

52,229 - or so the word counter says...

Before I saved it to a .txt file, it was 51,320. Not sure how saving it as text added 900 words - but either way, I am above 50,000.

Plus, the rough draft is finished.

Now what? :)

Hey! You've got a bird on your shoulder ( Read more... )