writing life
Fail Fast and Fail Often
2017 was an interesting year to be sure. I mostly remember it as the year where I Did Many Things Wrong.
That’s a good thing. You learn more from what you did wrong than from what you did right. (more…)
A Study In Magic
NaNoWriMo Last days
It’s a wrap! I’m more than halfway done with the last chapter of A Study In Magic that I’d planned to write for NaNoWriMo.
In a span of 28 days, I’ve written 36,400 words for A Study In Magic, the Application. This translates to eight chapters, with an average chapter about 4,550 words. These include the hardest, most heartrending scenes I ever wrote. The werewolf activism chapter has nothing over these. I cried harder writing them, definitely. (more…)
what I'm reading now
NaNoWriMo Week One, and Books on my Desk
NaNoWriMo Update
As of today, I’ve managed to type 16,800 or so words, 8,000 of them for A Study In Magic. Not the 23,333 words I’m supposed to be at but close enough. I’ve churned 3,500 fully usable yesterday and 1,800 today. I call that a victory.
What about the other 8000 words? Half of them is the for the next story of Memory Chasers, my first original novel. The other half is self-indulgent garbage no one is evil enough to deserve. My interest veers from esoteric to downright geeky. I mean, just look at my November reading stack:
