I have it written down on the inside of my two, 3 inch folders: February 9, 2014, the day I officially began working on my novel, The Guardian's Son. (Yes there are two of them, now. See the picture on my May 4, 2014 entry, then double it.) In a little more than a week, it will have been one year since I started it, and I'm still as interested in ( Read more... )

I was heading toward the close of my first chapter of The Guardian's Son (Yes, the first one. Don't judge.) when I reached the point where I get the ball rolling on the plot. That's when I hit a snag and realized some of the details hadn't been worked out as well as I thought. There were a few plot holes that needed to be filled before I could ( Read more... )

The picture you see is the physical representation of all the information I have on my computer about my novel. All my research and notes, so far, are bound in a 3 inch binder that is nearly full. Pretty crazy. (And that notebook sitting next to it? That's me trying to sketch out exactly how a separate 3 dimensional space (world) would attach to ( Read more... )

I am finally down to my fourth and final subplot for The Guardian's Son. I even have a hand-written rough sketch of it on a piece of notebook paper that was written during a system failure at work one day. All I have to do is pinpoint the exact time and place it will take place and look up some of the major events influencing the time to see how ( Read more... )

I am slowly and steadily working on my novel in between my coursework, which is also slow and mostly steady. I haven't written a single word on the actual story, but I'm getting my plot figured out and a lot of research out of the way. I already have a binder full of notes and research information. (Yes, a physical binder. Lisa Woodard: Killer of ( Read more... )

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 haven't logged onto this site since November, so it's time for an update. I had mentioned in my last post that I wanted to branch out into poetry. Then I looked at some of the markets for poetry, and frankly, I just don't know enough about poetry in general to assess where the best market would be for my work. So, poetry is back on the shelf. Now ( Read more... )

I was looking at some old poetry I had written roughly 15 years ago during a period of depression, (and consequently, a burst of creativity), and my early college years. I had originally saved them on floppy discs, which even if I could find them, I would have no means of running them. But fortunately, I had the foresight to print all of these out ( Read more... )

I have been taking topiramate (Topamax) since May for migraine headaches. I used to get them sporadically, but then I started getting them frequently, and they started lasting for days. When I talked to my doctor about it, I expected to get something that I could take whenever my head started hurting, but instead, he gave me this. He prescribed  ( Read more... )

I've nearly dropped off the internet radar lately. That includes Facebook, Live Journal and Parley. One of the reasons is, in fact, my studies, but there have been other reasons, too. I won't go into all of them, but I thought I might provide an update on a few things. I'll start with writing, since that's what this blog should be focusing on.

I ( Read more... )