-
A Fun First Day of September
First Day of September Well, we were stunned yet again today when the new Kickstarter Fiction River subscription drive went zooming past its first stretch goal. In just two days. Thank you, everyone, for supporting our wonderful project. It means a lot to us. And now everyone who gets a subscription through Kickstarter will get a free extra volume as our way of saying thanks. Even those supporters getting a subscription when you sign up for a workshop. And speaking of workshops, since we are having a number sign up for the three workshop package, before the Kickstarter is over, Kris and I will set the online workshop schedule for Jan, February,…
-
Starting September
Starting September Well, we were stunned today when the new Kickstarter Fiction River subscription drive hit its base goal in 23 hours. Wow!!! And Thank You! We love what we do with Fiction River. In the last four years it hasn’t always been easy, but we are so proud of the end product and working with all the fine editors on the volumes. And we are going onward without pause. And doing new stuff. So if you want to get some great original fiction, click on the image to the right and check out the discounts on the Fiction River Kickstarter Subscription Drive. Writing Workshops and Books in Kickstarter New Kickstarter Fiction…
-
Fun Stuff Happening This Week
Fun Stuff Happening This Coming Week Kris finished reading Star Fall: A Seeders Universe Novel and she liked it. She didn’t have many corrections at all, so took me about an hour tonight to run through it and put in her corrections that I agreed with, then got it off to WMG. As I said earlier, the book will be in a bundle in the middle of September. And speaking of bundles, I have a book in a really nifty bundle right now. It’s called “Out of This World Bundle” and it has 16 sf and fantasy novels in it, including one by me and one by Kris and a fantastic…
-
Finished Novel Challenge
Finished The Novel Challenge Took ten days, but all done. Right at 40,000 words finished, around 44,000 words written. Kris has already read the first 32,000 words and likes it, so she will finish it tomorrow, I will run over any corrections she finds, and have it in to WMG before Monday morning. It will have a quick copyedit and then get launched for the bundle starting on September 15th. So all good. Today I got my 10,000 steps in, cooked dinner, had a nap, worked on workshop stuff at WMG for about three hours, and wrote about 3,200 words in just over three hours of writing. Fun day. —— Day…
-
Day Eight of a Seven Day Novel Challege
Day Eight of a Seven Day Novel Challenge Nope, still didn’t make it. But I honestly wasn’t pushing very hard today. Sort of had the pressure of the challenge gone. Also, if I got it done tonight or tomorrow or Saturday it would make no difference since it has to go to WMG on Monday no matter what. So I decided to not stress about it. Did my 10,000 plus steps (five miles), took a long nap, cooked dinner, did some e-mail, then managed with some television scattered along the way to actually get 4,300 words in three hour-long sessions and a half hour session. Good enough and easy. Now going…
-
Day Seven: Novel Challenge
Day Seven: Novel Challenge Nope, didn’t make it. This challenge this time just had too many things going against it to finish a book in seven days. But more than likely I’ll have it done in eight or nine. (Yeah, that’s rough I know… (grin)). So here is what happened with this challenge. I didn’t get out ahead of the word count in the early days as I did last time. Just too many things got in the way. Second, I didn’t plan the timing of this challenge very well. Monday nights and Tuesday nights I have hours worth of workshop responses to do. I actually enjoy doing them but…
-
Day Six: Novel Challenge
Day Six: Novel Challenge Looking more and more likely this novel challenge will be eight days instead of seven. Again today just not enough time in the day and not enough power in these old eyes to deal with too many computer hours. But as I said to the writers I was walking with this afternoon, isn’t it a weird perspective when a 4,200 word day was a failure? (grin) So anyhow, today I did a ton of running around after getting out of here around 2:30 and managed to get to some exercise with the guys around 4 p.m. Made my 10,000 steps easily today. Then did some grocery…
-
Day Five: Novel Challenge
Day Five: Novel Challenge As I have been saying, this challenge this time is nothing at all like the first time I did this. And as I expected, I missed my word count today. Just not enough time in the day and energy in the old body to make it. But still two more days to go on this, so we’ll see how it ends up. Worst thing that could happen is that I need an 8th day to finish. Anyway, last night I got only just over five hours sleep because I needed to be up and to the WMG Publishing offices and store by 12:30 p.m. From around 1…
-
Day Three: Novel Challenge
Day Three: Novel Challenge I started off running some errands, then got to WMG Publishing around 2 p.m. Then off to do more errands, then back to work on workshop stuff. Then at 7 p.m. after one more work-related errand, I headed home to take a nap and cook dinner. 5 hours of work. I did some e-mail after dinner and then Kris and I went out for a walk. I got back after getting my 10,000 steps around 11 p.m. and got in here writing. 1 hour plus of exercise. That late of a start won’t work past tomorrow on this. Yikes. I managed in two short sessions to…
-
Day Two: Novel Challenge
Day Two: Novel Challenge Again for Day Two, a weird day. For the first time all year, it turned sort of hot here. Maybe got up to almost eighty, which here at the coast is a killer for us locals. Silly, I know, but air conditioning is a lost art here. So it was too warm for me to work in my office at WMG, so went out for some walking, got a new pair of running shoes and some running socks as well. Home by 6 p.m., after only about one hour of work, 1 hour of exercise. Too warm to work in here, so I went downstairs and took a…