OK, I admit, I had to force the alliteration. Success! Almost. I have less than one scene to rewrite, and I will be done with editing the first draft! I’m a little concerned that this will be a difficult scene to get right, since there is so much dialogue. It’s basically a huge explanation. Still,…

At long last, I have reached a different section of my science fiction story. Progress is still painstakingly slow, yet steady. Then my friend suggested that I had been forcing myself to work on this for too long and needed a break. After some consideration, I chose to focus on other projects for this week.…

Since I last posted here, one of my confidants told someone else, a professional, that I am a writer. I was uncomfortable with that. The professional immediately asked if I had made any money from it, if I had published anything. My confidant correctly answered “No” to both questions. Because those answers are no, I…

January. A new year. I have reconsidered announcing this website in 2023. I started it with the intention to not use it for a while, after all. Last April, before I bought the website hosting services or the domain name, while I was still researching how to start one and was quite frustrated by the…

First things first: I won the NaNoWriMo challenge! This is my third year participating, and my third win. Hooray! (I have a dream of never missing one.) I took a few days afterward to make sure the draft I created was complete. It still needs an awful lot of editing, but it has all the…

Hello – guess what? I’m ahead!The NaNoWriMo challenge is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. So, per day, that means 1,667 words. And the website has a bunch of badges you can win. They are just little virtual stickers, but they are motivating. One of those badges is to reach the 1,667 words every…

Well, I am halfway through the second draft of my science fiction work. Rewriting is easier, because most of the words are there in front of me already, and harder, because there is a lot of second guessing involved. I test different orders of scenes and name things that only had placeholders before. I have…

Let me confirm what you have probably guessed; I have not advertised this website. Practically no one knows about it yet – I have told two people how to find it, that is all. Imagine my surprise when I found a notice telling me I needed to moderate a comment. Some one had commented on…

Hello. Recently, I went through my index of story ideas. I judged 29 of them to be complete stories; the remaining 60+ are anything from ‘barely has a beginning’ to ‘only needs an ending.’ What surprised me was the realization (after someone pointed it out) that several of my ideas were not incomplete, only better…

Hello again. Camp NaNoWriMo is well under way, and at the end of day one I changed my goal. I now intend to briefly summarize 50 of my story ideas to check them for completeness. And I am behind. The day before Camp, I discovered 4TheWords, which is an interesting website which brings writing and…