Scrapping NaNoWriMo This Year

November 15, 2009

I started this year’s contest with the best intentions, but it just didn’t happen. Every time I launched my word processor, my mind would immediately focus on the rewrite of Shades of Evil, even as I stared at the words of the outline I started the weekend before the start date. My progress on that [...]

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Book Design Project: Eternal Quest for Immortality – Finished!

November 15, 2009

I’m very pleased to announce that John Evans’ book The Eternal Quest for Immortality is published and available on Amazon.com and Amazon UK. This project reminded me how much I enjoy designing books. There was an exciting learning curve, as I had never used Lightning Source before.
Their system looked somewhat daunting at first until I [...]

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NaNoWriMo: Just Around the Corner

October 24, 2009

About two weeks ago, it occurred to me that this year’s NaNoWriMo is starting soon. To get myself in the spirit, I poked around and found these posts.
Must-Have Tools for NaNoWriMo from Learn to Write Fiction
NaNoWriMo: How I Create Characters Benjamin Solah has got some great posts on how he prepares for NaNoWriMo, but [...]

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Creative Frenzy

October 21, 2009

Writing
I’ve finished the rewrites of Chapters 3 through 5. I feel like I’ve gotten a better sense of who my antagonist is. The mind mapping technique is really helping me out not only for character development, but to get a visual of what should happen by the end of each act. With this technique, I’ve [...]

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Book Review: Isis, by Doulas Clegg

September 24, 2009

Douglas Clegg became one of my favorite authors after I read his first e-serial novel, Naomi, in 1999. Since then, I have read several of his books that centered on a haunted mansion called Harrow. Isis is a prequel to his earlier novels, told in the first person POV of Iris Villiers, a girl who [...]

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Is the Thesis 1.6 Upgrade Worth It?

September 23, 2009

After watching Marko Saric’s video tutorial of Thesis 1.6, I decided to give it a try on my website and my blog. The installation process on my website went pretty much without a hitch. I say pretty much, because the upgrade didn’t include the code that I had used to design my interface. The reason [...]

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Why I Won’t Pay $99+ for an eReader

September 18, 2009

About two months ago, I was sitting on the couch during a book club meeting, listening to one of the ladies rave about Kindles and how she would love to buy one. She got me so excited about the prospect of owning one that I almost went to Barnes&Noble to take one for a test [...]

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Writing Progress: Shades of Evil

September 14, 2009

The rewrite is going very well so far. I’ve just finished the second chapter and plan on starting the third sometime this week. So far, I’ve established (re-established, if you read Prosperity) that Amanda is clairvoyant and that people often get squeamish over the subject, depending upon their religious beliefs. I’ve also established what she [...]

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