Another good month. I managed to start book six and have written 51,000 words this month, even despite a lot of personal issues that have affected my life which felt like they delayed and slowed my writing a lot. 51,000 words puts me at about the halfway mark in the book, so if I can keep up this pace I… Read more →
Word Count for June 2014
Quite a bit of progress in June. I met my goal of finishing book five in three months (began April 2) with 10 days to spare – and technically more if you want to get picky about it, as I was sick for a week in there as well. I managed to impress myself by finishing early because book five… Read more →
Word Count for May 2014
I lost track of my monthly word count for a few months there. The writing was slow, I was sick, and there were a variety of other excuses. But in those months I finished book four of my series, which clocked in at 93,000 words, so that’s something. For the last two months I have been writing book five, and… Read more →
Novel Excerpt: The Mirror of Life
I’m thrilled to announce that the official title of book two in The Word and the Sword series is The Mirror of Life, and will pick up a week or two after the events of The Book of Secrets. It will be fairly different from book one in that the principle plot does not take place at the Paideia, though… Read more →
Writing Resolutions for 2014
Everybody does New Years Resolutions, and I’m also aware that they are typically done in January. So I’m starting my resolution by the time most people have given up on theirs. But I really want to shoot for this one, and I think you’ll all be excited to hear about it too. My 2014 writing resolution is to finish two… Read more →