Moving On Down the Road

Hooray! I finished editing Chapter 2! I'm going to skip Chapter 3, I have already rewritten it twice! Let it go the way it is. I'll read through and try to catch any spelling, punctuation, or grammar errors.

It's a little after 11 PM. I think I can work through Chapter 3 before midnight. Both of my editors (Big Boy and Baby Girl) are asleep right now, so they're not sitting on the keyboard. I'm wide awake, so I might as well work on my retirement plan!

Enough frivolity! Back to Dragon Hunters!

Thanks for reading!

Dave

Just saw the Avengers movie. My writing is just not aggressive enough. Argh!

The Good News and the Bad News

Last night's meeting of the Bay Area Writer's League, BAWL, was one of the best meetings I have attended. Our guest speaker was Denise Little, an accomplished, writer, editor, publisher, and agent, with big time New York credentials. She talked for about commercial fiction, a subject she is very familiar with. The authors she has worked with, Tom Clancey and JanetYavonovich just to mention a few...
Anyway, she talked about writing fiction. I'm not going to try and repeat everything she said. You can search her name of the Internet and see  for yourself. (I hate the phrase: "Google it!" by the way!). I had a sort of a breakthrough last night while I was listening to her. I realized what I have been doing is wrong. Too long, too much background, not enough pop...

So that's the good news: I've been doing things wrong...

And the bad news? Well the bad news is that I've been doing things wrong...

I've got some serious editing to do. I use MS Word, so I think I will turn on Track Changes and see how that works...

Lots of work to do...


Thanks for reading!

Dave

Break Through!

Yesterday I had a headache when I got home and could not see to write. So I sat at my desk and watched (listened?)to the TV. in the process os sitting there thinking about Dragon Hunters and what I needed to do to fix the story, I had a bit of inspiration that I hope to turn into some serious writing this weekend. With a bit of luck, I will be able to tie up some loose ends and add a bit of action to the story. I'm probably going to make some people angry at me. But I think this is the break through I have been waiting (and working for)! Thanks for reading, Dave

Ahead Slow

Answering Ahead Slow...

Moving slowly forward now after a few day's break. Tried to write some on Saturday while we were away, but my heart was not in it. I just vegged out on the couch in the guest house and watched TV. Good to get away? Yeah, I guess. We'll see how this all works out.

Right now, its a matter of DragonHawks as Annie Hawkes is invited to tea with Lady Mani Hawkes, onboard the Tycho Star Trader's Family Ship, the Tycho Pride. What will our young DragonHawk do when she meets one of the most powerful DragonHawks alive - and the mother of the man that she thinks she is falling in love with?

You'll have to read Dragon Hunters to find out!

Thanks for reading!

Dave

All Stop

That's what has happened to my writing right now.  Just kinda ground to a stop. Going out of town this weekend. Maybe that will help.

As always, thanks for reading!

Dave

Slowly in the Fast Direction...

Well, I'm still working on Dragon Hunters. Got lots of ideas about how to finish it up and get it reviewed. What I don't seem to have is the time.

I had hoped to finish this weekend, but most of Saturday will be spent putting my study back together after the phone lines are repaired. I have a bunch of wires running everywhere. Now that its all tore apart, I don't have any excuses for not putting it back the right way.

Maybe I'll take some photos and share the chaos...

Maybe I can write on Sunday...

Why am I moving slowly in the fast direction? The ideas are coming fast, but the words are coming slowly.

BTW, 10 bonus points if you know what the phrase "Slowly in the fast direction" means.

Thanks for reading,

Dave