• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    That Was Rough

    Not At All Sure Why I Did That To Myself… Now anyone here knows I work until 5 a.m. or later in the mornings. So like an idiot, I set up a return flight from Vegas to leave at 6 a.m. And I had a two hour drive the airport over to the coast after I got into Portland. Yes, I set that up. I have no memory of the stupid thinking I was doing when I did that. I have no one to blame but myself, darn it. So after managing to get a few hours sleep, I left the hotel at 3:30 a.m. and everything went smoothly. Slept…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Epilogue: Writing a Novel in Five Days While Traveling

    WRITING A NOVEL IN FIVE DAYS WHILE TRAVELING… Epilogue… I am writing this from the comfort of my office at home, the day after I got back, which was late last night. I ended having to fight a pretty nasty storm coming in, but made it fine. The drive from Las Vegas to the Oregon Coast took two days, with a stop in Redding. As I said, the novel came in at 37,100 words. But I know for a fact that I will need to flush out the ending slightly because I figured out the end, was tired and did a lot of “and then this happened…” So more than likely the final…