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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
NEWSFLASH: You Cannot Copyright Ideas
When I was in grad school, one of the required courses for Arts Administration was “Art Law.” We spent nearly half the semester discussing copyright law and, boy, is it ever tricky! The one lesson they drilled into us was this: copyright is for tangible things. If you can put it into physical form, it [...]
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