People are talking a lot these days about the horror of letting go of their manuscripts. It's established that it's something you have to learn to do and that it's difficult, like sending your child off to college. But I don't have kids and, even if I did, that metaphor wouldn't be perfect. It's close,... Continue Reading →
Update: The Age of Submissions Already Sucks
I wasn't intending to do another update immediately; last weekend was the first weekend without Saturday morning cartoons, as you may have heard. That made this past Monday the perfect time to launch my Cliché Showcase series (I'm starting with cartoony villains). But when the time came, I just wasn't feeling it. Although I was excited to... Continue Reading →
Update: It Starts
I thought I'd take a short, casual recess from the super intense posts to write an update about my work. For two weeks, the above Progress Bar has been glowing at the top of the site. It means that I've finished the content edit for my first book, War of Exiles, and that I'm incredibly... Continue Reading →
Very Comfortably Insane
Not to be a downer, but at the time of this posting, I still don't feel it. It's been a week now. A week since I finished my rewrite of my first novel. And somehow, I still don't really feel it. There were moments when I almost did--moments when I wrote to a friend about... Continue Reading →
Brand New Day – Week 13 – Things Unsaid
Last night, I decided to delete a chapter and a new character from the book. Don't freak out! Doing this hasn't set me back at all. To the contrary, getting rid of an entire chapter and a new character who wasn't exactly helping is incredibly healthy. Particularly for a first time writer who intends to submit... Continue Reading →
Brand New Day – Week 1
Last week, on Wednesday, the 14th, I worked my last day at Borders. The rest of that week and the weekend that followed disappeared in a bunch of Borders closing parties (and the hang-overs that followed). Yesterday, Monday, the 19th, was a brand new day. In short, it was the beginning of my gamble to... Continue Reading →
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