Progress Report—August 30
# OF WORDS WRITTEN THIS WEEK: 5,157 Excellent week for writing! I made some serious headway on THE GHOST WRITER and I’m now 20% of the way to my writing goal for that novel. I exceeded my goal of two chapters and managed to finish off three, making this the most productive week I’ve had in […]
Free Stuff Friday, PLUS Sea Monsters
I’m not actually giving anything away, but I do a lot of research into free stuff you can get on the internet and I’ve decided to start sharing on Fridays. I do love technology Free Stuff I Use Everyday: 1) Tweetdeck. If you’re on Twitter, you need this. You won’t know you need it until […]
Early Scottish Music Notation
Go read this article. Too cool! Markings on a 16th Century carving from Stirling Castle could be the oldest surviving piece of written Scottish instrumental music, historians believe. A sequence of 0s, Is and IIs have been found on one of the Stirling Heads — wooden medallions which would have decorated the castle’s royal palace. It […]
Progress Report—August 24
Alright, I know I’ve been delinquent in posting the past two weeks. And I only wrote 499 new words during that time. BUT it’s with good reason. I swear. I’ve been knee deep in revisions of GLOW. And I feel really, really good about it. Here’s what happened: I’ve been struggling with how to cut down the […]
Progress Report—August 9
# OF WORDS WRITTEN THIS WEEK: 4,139 Progress wasn’t bad this week. Which is good. I had planned to get a lot more accomplished, but, as usual, life has a way of, well, getting in the way. However, I did manage to reach all my goals. I wrote a chapter in SHADOW, plus one and half chapters […]
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