This past weekend was taken up by a conference in the Omni hotel in downtown Austin. It was a strange event, for me. I’ve attended many science fiction conventions — far more than I can remember. This was different. Take a large convention, chop off all the fans. Then chop off all the published novelists.… Continue reading Recovering from Writer’s League of Texas Conference
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Clean up time
I’m deep in the process of turning a rough first draft of the new novel “Falling Bakward” into a cleaner version suitable for other eyes. It was very discouraging yesterday, as I waded through the first two chapters and found so many horrible errors. But today, it was much smoother going. I find that when… Continue reading Clean up time
Falling Bak-ward has reached First Draft
Time to celebrate. Just a few minutes ago, I wrote THE END on the first draft of my newest novel “Falling Bak-ward”. This is the completion of step two in my personal writing process. I had written an outline. Lately they are huge. It was a 23,000 word outline for an 86,000 word novel. Now… Continue reading Falling Bak-ward has reached First Draft