State of the writer

It’s been a little while since I posted a writing update. It seems I misjudged the amount of Life based items going on in November and so, while the word count widget on the right tells me I have made progess, I am a bit behind on my current project. To recap...

Life

The best laid plans of mice and men go astray. Due to several experiences of Life, that are too tedious and private to go into here, I have no chance of making my self set deadline of finishing the current work-in-progress by tomorrow. So it goes. My revised deadline...

Half way

A brief note on the current work-in-progress. I just tipped over the half way mark. Go me. Now, this still means I am a fair bit behind but also that I still have a fighting chance of hitting my deadline that now seems to be looming closer and closer. The critical...

Pressing on…

I’m around three weeks from my self imposed deadline for the first draft of the current work in progress. I don’t like talking about draft zero/one while they are underway but this is the contemporary fantasy novel I have been chipping away at over the...

Urban contemporary

I’ve been making steady progress on the current work-in-progress. I’m averaging around 5-7k a week at the moment which is forward motion, even if it’s not at the rate I would like and I’m starting to feel like a proper book is coalescing....