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Beneath the Sky, draft 2.1

I just finished off the edits to Beneath the Sky, bringing it up to draft 2.1.  Many thanks to my alpha/beta readers (Andrew, Julia, and Rose) for their feedback on the earlier drafts. I still have to...

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Nah Know Rhyme Oh!

We’re gutting pumpkins and mixing up fresh brain, so that can mean only one thing: It’s almost time for NaNoWriMo. Ok, maybe Halloween is in there somewhere too, but if you’re in the writing field, you...

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NaNoWriMo 2011 Wrap-up

Yep, 50,000 words. Been there. Done that. Here’s the equivalent of the t-shirt: I was pretty confident going in this year. I had already succeeded at NaNoWriMo three times before, turning two of those...

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Finished another draft

I’ll probably say more tomorrow, but for now I wanted a quick victory lap. I just finished the draft of my third novel, tentatively titled “Ships of My Fathers”.  I started it as a NaNoWriMo this...

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Beneath the Sky sample

Here are the first one and a half chapters of my new book, Beneath the Sky. I’ve cut it off at the same place that the Kindle’s free sample did, mostly for the unintentional cliffhanger it chose....

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The Plot is Thataway

With a blog named “Making it up as I Go”, it’s pretty obvious that I don’t do outlines, but neither am I flying completely by the seat of my pants with no plan as to what comes next. So, pantser or...

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