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More About How the Writing Is Going: January 2, 2023
At nine PM today, I finished copyediting Instruments of Faith, the sequel to I Won’t Cry for Yesterday. Also, Paul tells me that there are no more backstory adjustments necessary to make The Dark Plaza work with the prequel series, … Continue reading
How the Writing Is Going
Happy 2013! No, that’s not a typo. It’s currently the first day (first few hours, even) of 2013, in the novel Paul finished writing on Wednesday. Truth be told, the characters in the novel are, for the most part, not … Continue reading
Winter Solstice and the New Year… in a Fictional World Much Like This One
University students’ love lives! Family secrets! Dramatic irony! First, there’s the Solstice party in Cincinnati (yes, I know Cincinnati exists in this world, but lots of Earths have a Cincinnati), at the home of two of the characters in the … Continue reading
How the Writing Is Going: December 5 and 6, 2022
Dec. 5, 3 PM: At least 4,500 more words on book three of the “prequel series” got written last week, and this week is already off to a good start. Right now, about two and a half miles from here, … Continue reading
How the Writing Is Going: August 27, 2022
As of yesterday afternoon at five, the word count for Stormriders had reached 48K. (Numbers and whether or not they ought to be spelled out in writing remind me of a joke my dear clone-sibling shared with me a couple … Continue reading
How the Writing Is Going: August 9, 2022
The Stormriders manuscript is currently just above 39K words. The author does not write standalone stories: As I’ve said before (lots and lots of times, and maybe eventually all the people who enjoy “the Tebrey stories” so much will read … Continue reading
Cover reveal!
(I want to say something about discussing art while we wait, but… *shrug*) This picture is the not-quite-finished cover for the last book of The Awakening series. I think all that remains to be done with it is the sort … Continue reading
How the Writing Is Going: July 20, 2022
Sometime this spring/early summer, Paul decided that he needed to make a few adjustments to the manuscript for The Dark Plaza in light of things the characters told him during the writing of the prequel series, so he’s been making … Continue reading
How the Writing Is Going: April 19, 2022
Current word count on the current WIP is exactly 47, 416. Also, the first eight chapters of The Dark Plaza (this could still be just a working title, so don’t get mad at me if it’s published as something else) … Continue reading
How the Writing Is Going: April 8, 2022
Word count for the WIP is now forty thousand (40,000). One of the main threads in the story is currently dealing with a lot of “normal life” stuff, exactly the sort of thing the author usually doesn’t write about. It’s … Continue reading