75,000 words. Overnight I officially hit a new word count milestone, marking my third novel as my longest yet – and with around twelve chapters to go (by my approximation), there’s no sign of things letting up anytime soon. Current estimates put me in around the 100,000 word mark(!) before editing. Considering that I was wondering about splitting this novel in half at one stage, […]
Novel Writing 13: The Home Stretch.
Sometimes it feels like I’ve been running for a long time. http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/3770248/forrest-gump-football-run-o.gif It was almost a year to the day that I started writing my first novel. Since then, I’ve written over 210,000 words. Scarily, that means I’m now in the home stretch. Bringing everything together at the end of this trilogy has been about as challenging as I figured it would be. There are multiple […]
Revisiting an Old Classic.
Well, maybe it’s not quite a classic, but it’s where I started. Yesterday I finished reformatting my original steampunk mystery novella, What Went Wrong With Mrs Milliard’s Mech? Editing the novella was an enlightening experience to say the least, one that was spurred on by a review I received on Amazon almost a year ago, which used my novella to complain about the death of the English language. […]
Edits, Edits, and More Edits.
One down, six to go! I’ve finished the first edit of my manuscript as of Sunday, and it’s a fantastic feeling! Going through a manuscript with fresh eyes is important, especially for finding slow points, or areas that need more clarity. I’ve ended up with about eight pages of notes, and plenty to do. One thing that I enjoyed about this edit was revisiting a few […]
Hello… it’s me.
Well, it’s been a rough few weeks, but I’m back in the writing game. Over the past couple of years, I’ve found my writing ebbs and flows; there are times when everything comes naturally, and I feel strong and certain. Other times, I just doubt myself, and dilly-dally around achieving nothing at all. Since completing my second novel manuscript, I’ve taken a bit of time […]
