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It’s That Time of Year Again….
It’s National Novel Writing Month, and I will be hip-deep in the endeavour to write 50,000 in the next 30 29 days. I’ll post excerpts here as I go, as well as on my Facebook page. I wish everyone else doing it this year the best of luck, and let’s go win this thing!
Five Things for a Weird Tuesday, Oct 26th
I haven’t done a “5 Things” post in a while (small bits of stuff that don’t warrant a full blog post, but allow me to write something), but since I’ve been sporadic and feeling guilty about it, I decided to do one today.
1. A very strange day. Out of the blue, I got a Facebook message from an aunt on my father’s side. I don’t recall ever speaking to her or meeting her, although it’s possible I did when I was very very young. When my Dad died when I was 7, we pretty much lost all contact with his side of the family (and the majority of my mother’s side as well, long story). One of his brothers, Phil, kept in occasional touch, mostly because he was executor of my grandparent’s estate, and when they died I received a small sum of money, along with all his other grandchildren. In the space of a few hours, my aunt and I exchanged a few emails. She’s a hospice nurse with lots of children and grandchildren. It was nice to finally “meet” my father’s sister.
Current Events
Since it’s been a little while since I’ve done a blog, I figured I’d go ahead and fill you in on the EXCITING and TUMULTUOUS EVENTS (or lack thereof) that have taken place.
Football: The Redskins won yet another ridiculously close game. Out of 5 games, 4 of them have come down to the final play. Only when they got hammered by the Rams, who lost 44-6 or something this week to the previously 0-4 Lions, was the outcome of the game not in doubt on the final snap. Heart attack central, this team. But since they are 3-1 in those nail-biters, I’ll take it for now. Read the rest of this entry
Man, He Works Fast
In one day, the cover art goes from black and white to this:
Daevan and Troius, in color
Am I pysched? Hell yeah.
New Cover Coming
In The Curse of Troius: A Zombie Fantasy Novel news, a new cover is in the works! I am very pleased to be working with Christopher Stewart (if “working with” means letting his talent do all the work) on the new and vastly more interesting and exciting cover. I can’t wait for it to be done, since the Black and Grey cover is a bit, uh, plain.
The Stranger and Troius battle as the horde looks on.
JulNoWriMo
I decided to try to do a Novel Writing Month in July. 50,000 words was my goal. I failed.
It’s OK, really. I was just trying to motivate myself to write more of the sequel, to make it a priority. I ended up writing almost nothing during weekends, and I think that’s what cost me. I’m at around 40k, though, and that’s a good chunk of the sequel. I want this one to be around 100k-120k words or so, and I think that’s feasible. In order to tell the story in my head, it may have to be more.
I’ll keep going through August as much as possible. It’s been difficult folding in the writing with the new fitness regime, which takes a lot of time and energy. The results have been worth it though. If I can do 30k a month for August and September, I’ll pretty much be done. I still would like to have the sequel sellable by the end of October, so I need to keep slogging away. Ain’t easy.
Winter in Derenemyn 