Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch...

After a long weekend in Round Rock, Tx with my son, daughter-in-law, and 4-month old granddaughter, I'm back at Fort Digger and the keyboard.  I didn't write this weekend. In fact, when I opened up the Star Trader Data spreadsheet where I keep my daily writing log, I discovered that I haven't written anything since February 14, 2013.

So I'm at the keyboard today, making some progress on a part of Dragon Hunters that I was having some problems completing. Looks pretty good so far.

As always, thanks for reading!


Dave

Progress means hard decisions. I cut a bunch and wrote some new. A new chapter to write this weekend. But progress is being made.
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Dave

Details! Details! Details!
I think I'm choking the story with too many details. I'll have to look at that and see what I can see!

Thanks for reading,

Dave

A good restart...

Last night was a good start... or I guess I should say restart on repairs to Dragon Hunters. I rewrote the prologue last night in about two hours and I am happy with the results. So tonight I'll continue on, see how far I can get.

Some of the people following my work will say: "Dude, you keep rewriting!"

Yeah, I know. It's a bad habit of mine. I'm working through it... so to speak...

Thanks for reading!


Dave

"Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life." - Lawrence Kasden

Not necessarily a step backwards...

Last night I followed through with my plan and deleted the two parts of Dragon Hunters and reverted back to the full version before the split. I didn't lose anything, I copied the good parts from Part 1 into the main before deleting the parts.

Anyway, so no harm, no foul. Some progress lost, but not really. I just have to get my head straightened out and get back on course.

That's all for now.


Thanks for reading!

Dave

So much for that idea...

How's it go?

The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray...

I had hoped to get some serious writing done over the weekend. That didn't work out quite like I hoped it would.

I hit a big block this weekend and just kept going over the same chapter over and over again. The end result was a butchered chapter that kinda sorta works...

Last night I was so frustrated I was ready to dump the whole DragonHawk Saga.

I didn't do that.

Tonight I feel like deleting a bunch of chapters and start over with them. Or just do without them. What I will probably do is dump the two parts and go back to the point in Dragon Hunters where I was just before the split.

Have to factor in the Monday factor. Monday is not a good day for me to make major decisions like this. And I've thinking about this in the back of my mind all day today while I was writing about the purpose and function of various systems on an offshore oil/gas platform.

Such is life. Doing one thing when you'd really rather be doing something else.

I did find a cool graphic on Facebook today. I'll post it at the top of the page. The author is my favorite author and my inspiration for writing!

As always...

Thanks for reading!


Dave