Tag: creative-writing
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Fire Moon – Third Draft Begun
Hmm. Work on the book, or write this blog post? The blog post, evidently. As I posted to social media recently,“Just marking the date:I’ve started the third draft of Fire Moon, the third in my scifi trilogy about folks who leave Earth to escape an AI, and find that they are now the aliens. Stay…
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Fire Moon – Second Draft-ish
The edits from the speedread are in. I might as well call that the second draft of Fire Moon. I think I’ll celebrate by doing some writing, aka this blog post. It’s almost as if I’ve done this before. The first draft took about seven months. The speedread took a few weeks. The edits took…
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Speedread Is Done – First Moon
The speedread of the first draft of the third book in the Exodus/Genesis trilogy (more commonly known as the Firewatcher series) is done! Yay! And there wasn’t much substantial to fix. Yay! And it took longer than I expected. Yay? And the fixes are all on paper, not in the computer. Boo. And I liked…
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Fire Moon – First Draft Done
The first draft of my third scifi novel is done! That description sounds like a buried lede. It is a work in progress. So am I. Deal with it. Meanwhile, I will celebrate it. I’ve already taken a mid-morning nap. Now, I put it aside for a month while I work on other things and…
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Words Are Done-ish – Hurricane Ridge
The words are done! Well, the first draft of the words are done. The first draft of the words for Twelve Months at Hurricane Ridge are done. Yay and whew. But isn’t it supposed to be a photo essay? Yep. But the photos have titles, maybe some captions, and this essay will have a few…
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Write It Down – Now
Drat!, or was it Rats!? I had a great opening line for this post and got distracted before I could write it down. What was it? I know it was about why I always carry paper and something to write on, but I said it better than that. Rats. No joke; I think the most…
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Muddling By – Second Draft Begun
I almost titled this post Justifiably Reprimanded, but that can apply to anything. More correctly (Almost) Justifiably Reprimanded was possible, but too many syllables. I’ve started working on the second draft of Muddling By, which partly explains my recent delay in posting. A reader justifiably reprimanded me for not keeping everyone informed about the book’s…
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18,000 Words
More than 18,000 words into my next book, and where do I go next? I feel as if I’ve pushed myself out from shore, the city shrinking as my boat heads out into the choppy waters of writing, and I’m wondering whether to put up sail, get out the oars, float with the currents, fire…
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Finding Topics
Listen to yourself. I’ll start by listening to me. What am I going to write about? It has been a couple of weeks since I posted to this blog. What should I write about? Enough stuff has been going on. I have plenty to write about for my main blog, which is about personal finance.…
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Firewatcher – The Revised Edition
Note: My apologies. Amazon temporarily paused it. As if life wasn’t crazy enough,… In the midst of moving from my sweet home on Whidbey Island to a sweet tiny house in Port Townsend (from one art community to another – aka MyTinyExperiment.com), I tripped over a deadline. New and improved, Firewatcher, my first sci-fi novel has been re-released. Now, with…
