Keep me on your thoughts, please. I’ve just gotten the editor’s story notes back on Conduit 4, so I’ll spend the afternoon digging through them. Occasionally, my aprés-reading ‘feelings’ require a rather large dose of chocolate and some couch/knitting time to process. I usually do two full reading passes of SFG’s (aka the editor) notes […]
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I was waffling about posting a Misfits 2 excerpt this week. Firstly, my week went a little sideways, because we had to go off island yesterday for an emergency specialist appointment for Molly (an ulcer in her eye) that, within 30 minutes, turned into an upcoming appointment for a $3500 eyelid surgery. (And we literally […]
Having done a pass on the first three chapters that I wrote year ago, I’m working through the outline/structure for Misfits 2 today, including building the book-specific character bible, etc. And I decided that I need a (‘neutral party’) sorcerer character for a fairly minor role and thought it would be fun to bring a […]
I’m celebrating getting Conduit 4 into the editor (and out of my mind, hopefully, for 10-14 days – yay) by dropping a longer Kandy excerpt (below!). YAY! I’m going to play around with Kandy’s book until it’s time for me to do another draft of Conduit 4 (based on the editor’s story notes), so I’m […]
Conduit 4. Second (full) Draft. 88, 664 words. Done! Whoot! I wrote the final chapter (3821 words) today. And when I get my hands on Michael’s notes tomorrow, I’ll be able to do a final quick polish before sending the book off to the editor for story (aka development) edit. That stage usually takes about […]
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5:27pm – GIVEAWAY CLOSED. All of the five winners have been emailed, but because I set this all up oddly and two of our winners ended up selecting One Small Echo, I might pick another random reader (so a sixth person) to win the ‘odd book’ out. Will keep the list up to date at […]
I’m deep in the Conduit 4 second draft as I watch over my Molly Millions (she’s starting to feel better but hasn’t eaten yet) so it’s just short excerpt this week (& the end of Chapter 1). I really only managed to glance at it once before posting, but I hope you enjoy it anyway! […]
Just a drive by blog post as I’m deep in the writing cave (or aerie in my case) and on deadline to get Conduit 4 into the editor for story edit (aka development edit) by October 15. That includes Michael alpha reading for me, which is still totally workable but tight. Molly is at the […]
Reminder that this is a ‘older’ first draft that was actually written before Kandy’s three prequel shorts, so there might be some continuity issues. I think I’m finding and patching most of them as I work through these early sections, but some might slip through until I really dig back into the writing full time. […]
Sorry no newsletter today, and no Misfit 2 excerpt. I’ve pushed hard on writing new words this week, so little else has been done. And now I’m calling it. Conduit 4. First Draft. 80, 034 words. Done!! ✅ I have no idea – other than my pain has been ‘a lot’ this year – why […]