This morning, Amazon announced the 100 semi-finalists in their Breakthrough Novel Award contest. I am not one of them. Since my sales pitch was good enough to get me past the first round, I’m thinking I should send it out as a query to a few agents and see if it generates any interest.
And now [...]
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Better Luck Next Time
Posted in writing on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fame And Fortune, Here I Come!
Posted in writing on March 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
About a month ago I entered my first novel, Black Destiny, in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. The contest is for unpublished novels, with the grand prize being a contract with Penguin for publication and a $25k advance. I figured that since my novel was complete, I may as well give it a go.
I [...]
OK, Now Where Was I?
Posted in writing on October 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Over the past four months, I’ve been kind of sidetracked from my normal novel-writing progress. I met a woman and fell in love. We’re engaged now, and she moved in with me a couple weeks ago. During that time, she’s been just about as distracted from writing as I’ve been. (Of course she’s a writer, [...]
Progress, Behind The Scenes
Posted in writing on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When I started this blog back whenever, October I think, I decided that if I found it was interfering with my writing, I would stop posting. That’s what’s been going on these past few weeks. I didn’t make a conscious decision not to post here, but all of my free time has been devoted to [...]
New Story
Posted in fiction, writing on June 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I finally got off my lazy butt and posted a new story over on my stories page. It’s my vision of where corporate America is heading as wages stagnate and jobs become harder to find here, while other countries see their wages soar, especially in the tech fields that we outsourced in the interest of [...]
Let It Snow
Posted in writing on May 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I finished up the dossiers for the five main characters in the new novel. The last item on each was a paragraph that explained that character’s storyline. Funny thing was that when I got to the end of the fifth one, I realized that none of them matched all of the details (where people met, [...]
The Catch-And-Release Storyteller
Posted in writing on May 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As I mentioned last time, I began work on my next novel using the “snowflake method.” I got as far as Step Two (of ten) and started spinning my wheels. Step Two is where I take the simple one-sentence storyline that I wrote in Step One and expand it into a paragraph. My original inspiration [...]
I’m Not A Slacker, Really.
Posted in writing on May 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Wow, it’s been a long time since my last post. I haven’t been sitting around doing nothing for the past couple of weeks, though. I’ve actually had a lot of stuff going on.
I’ve started reading my novel aloud, which is really weird. I talk to myself a lot (I’m usually the only one who will [...]
Writing: The Anti-Drug
Posted in writing on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
After pulling 8 pages (two scenes) from my novel, I was met with a moment or two of concern. While I knew that the excised pages had to go, I had no idea what would take their place. None. I spent some time on Sunday thinking about it. I tossed a few ideas back and [...]
Word Count – Part Two
Posted in writing on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To follow up on my previous post, I posed the question of how to calculate word count to Colleen Lindsay over at The Swivet. I was not the only person with such a question, so she (being such a kind person) talked to one of her industry contacts about it. You can read about it [...]
