Tag: book
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Words Lost and Words Found (NaNoWriMo Update — Week Two)

Photo by ariadna I have been writing every day—not that this is terribly unusual of late—but this time with the pressure of not getting my word count in for NaNoWriMo on top of it. It’s a silly, self-imposed trial of words, but I think there’s some great value to it. Just having committed to doing it…
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NOVEL IS FINISHED!

photo by Dustin Lee Yes, you read that correctly. I have finished my novel, the very first one. Yesterday, around 9pm is when the last word was written. I had given myself a deadline of today, Oct. 31st and I brought it in a day early. A few days ago, it was looking bleak. I had…
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Progress Update 001 – Yoshio and Friends
So… this is maybe a new feature of my blog. I decided I just needed to make a little progress update and get a feel for where I am and how things are going. I’ve received good feedback about my story, The Kanji Test, which was in last week’s post. My one follower comment so…
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What Do You Expect?
I’m working on what I hope is at least the next to last draft of my first full-length novel. If I’m really lucky, this will be the last draft. What should you expect from this blog then? Probably not a lot about the craft of writing. There are so very many blogs dedicated to that…
