My first year doing NaNoWriMo and I just won! 50,134 words in 29 days. Completed despite missing three days of writing due to Thanksgiving and two days of 20th High School reunion immediately following. Of course, reduced hours at word definitely contributed to my success. Next year I hope to succeed while also pulling a 30-hour work week! Any ( Read more... )

For the last 4 days (also known as the first 4 days of NaNoWriMo 2009) I've been going full board, dumping words onto my virtual page like crazy. It's worn me out, but it's felt good, and I liked what I was writing. Today I hit a wall. I had no idea where the story was going and didn't feel I could add to any other part until I figured out how the ( Read more... )

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) began on Nov. 1, and for the first time ever I'm participating. (If you don't know what NaNoWriMo is, go here to check it out: http://www.nanowrimo.org ) I don't want to spend too much time here because I should be writing on my story, but I wanted a ( Read more... )

I know I post here so irregularly that there's likely no one reading it, but even so, I'll post the newest news. After nearly 2 years of waiting and several evenings of further research and editing, the editor at "Spider" magazine and I have agreed on a final draft of "Ring of Horses". The article will be published in their May/June 2009 issue. ( Read more... )

Ok, so it's been quite a while since I've posted anything. Honestly, until a few weeks ago, it'd been a long time since I wrote anything that wasn't a professional report, a shopping list, or an instant message. Paperwork for my job took a lot of my time, but even when it wasn't I was uninspired (out of practice?) In the meantime, I took some ( Read more... )

I finally heard back from Spider (Cricket Magazine Group) and they want to publish "Ring of Horses!" They e-mailed rather than snail mail, and I was totally not expecting it. I think I'm still in shock, but getting more excited all the time. Thing is, it won't be published for possibly 2-3 years because they have so much material already and ( Read more... )

For any of you out there who are actually following this blog, you may remember I had an experiment going where I recorded the number of words I wrote each day. The idea was that maybe if other people were "watching" the numbers it would motivate me to be more prolific. You may also have noticed that I made note of these numbers for 10 days at ( Read more... )

After a long wait and a million e-mails, Voices of the Three, the Castles and Crusades module I wrote, has finally been published on Dragonsfoot. You can find it here. It is a free download, as are all their publications. And it's very easily converted to any edition of D&D (especially 1e), for anyone who might be interested. Enjoy!

Words today: -215
Total words: 1366

My story now has a name that I think will stick: The Way Home. I managed to whittle away nearly all that I need to while also refining what I kept. Unfortunately, the story still does not inspire me, which is why I'm hesitant to share any details here. I suspect I have attempted to tackle something that ( Read more... )

Words today: -190 words ( Read more... )