Here We Go Again… Okay, I know, I’m a day late again, only this time I think I have an awesome excuse! Last night, when I’d set aside time to blog my progress, our eldest daughter was occupying the computer so… Read More ›
Writing
Making Progress.
Only Four Chapters To Go! This evening I read through Chapters Ten and Eleven, leaving only four more before I have to assess my notes and get ready for the second read through, which will be made with those notes… Read More ›
Dragging Feet.
Yet Another Excuse. So anyway, before I get on with the meat of today’s update, I’ll ply you with yet another excuse for my tardiness in posting. I’m ahead of schedule –just! – with my revisions, but that’s of not… Read More ›
Slow Going Revision.
Fast Means Slow. First let me apologize for being super late yet again. Last week I had the beginning of a four-day fast planned and I wanted to delay the post so I could write about how that was going…. Read More ›
First Steps in the Revising The Old Man.
Making a Start. So, I’m finally getting around to starting the first revision of the book, and my first impression is this is going to be harder than I thought Harder Work. Why? First up, there are a number of things… Read More ›
Staying Motivated
Time. There never seems to be enough of it. Yesterday was taken up almost entirely with the last of this semester’s school workload, feeding the brood, and getting them to and from Girl Scouts. This is one of the great… Read More ›
Thoughts on Outlining
Starting out on my current project, I’d laid out what I thought was a fairly helpful outline. It set out the progress of the story in chunks that weren’t even bite-sized, they were more like crumbs. Not even half-way through I… Read More ›
Six Things to Think About Before Getting a Chromebook
Having now worked with both a laptop and a Chromebook, here are what I think are the six most important differences between them that might affect your choice of what to work with. 1. PRICE For comparison of prices off-the-shelf,… Read More ›
A Busy Easter
It has been a busy weekend that spilled over into a busy Monday also. Spending time with the family on Easter Sunday meant taking everything we normally do on a Sunday and cramming it into Saturday with everything we normally… Read More ›
A Resurrection
The Old Man isn’t the first attempt at a novel I’ve ever undertaken. I dug around in the closet and retrieved this old chestnut, Walker. Walker is a sci-fi story set in the fairly distant future when the human race had colonized… Read More ›