literature

  • 60K – Pause to review

    60K – Pause to review

    I just hit 60K on the novel and now I am pausing to review what I have written so far and figure out the next part of the story.

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  • Weekly Blog – 50 K words!

    Weekly Blog – 50 K words!

    Weekly Blog: I reached the bench mark of 50K words on Project: Fox Hunt today! My currently reading goal – 52 new books read in a year – is currently sitting at 4 books read. I picked up my 3DS and starting playing Pokemon Diamond from the start.

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  • In for a penny…

    In for a penny…

    In for a pound as they say. This mid-week blog is here to announce that I am officially working on both Project Fox Hunt and cleaning up Project Oak Grove. I have decided to finish Oak Grove but before I can do that, I need to migrate it over to Scrivener and if I am…

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  • Small Wins -45K words

    Small Wins -45K words

    This last week was a bit hard because I ended up sick for a few days and then had a sore neck for a few more. I ended up only getting a few thousand words done but I am nearly ready to start working on the second half of the novel. I have found that…

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  • Making Time

    Making Time

    The last few weeks I have been experimenting with making time by trying out different schedules for myself. First, I made sure to carve out dedicated time to just focus on writing. That worked out well and I now have a dedicated time in which I write each day. However, I have found that I…

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  • Act Two – Complete

    Act Two – Complete

    This week I finished act two in my rough draft and I have the set up for act three waiting to go. I reached 37K words but I need to get to 60K by the end of the month. I am trying to work a little bit on the project everyday but I am at…

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  • Post Holiday Catch Up

    Post Holiday Catch Up

    These last few weeks have been super busy with visiting family, holidays, and new years celebrating. Work on Project Fox Hunt was put on the back burner for a bit. I am happy to announce that I am back in the writing chair and have some updates to share. First, I reached the 30K mark…

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  • Week 6 – 20K

    Week 6 – 20K

    Last week was a busy one at my job but I managed to get in a few thousand words and I am now up to 20,000 words on Project Fox Hunt. My original goal was to write 90K but looking at the way this story is unfolding I don’t think I can do it any…

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  • Week 5 – late update

    Week 5 – late update

    Last week was not as productive as I would have liked. I didn’t get a lot of words down on paper because my energy levels were super low. Instead I worked on world building and figuring out the time lines. I also started writing different perspectives for different characters. Most of what I wrote to…

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  • Week Four: Prophecy Time

    Week Four: Prophecy Time

    This week I worked on fixing a few things I previously wrote to add more tension into the start of the story. These were some of the blockers I spoke up last week. Now, I am in the process of writing a prophecy for the main character. I have not tried this before in a…

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