60 Thousand Words In February

Some cool folks over at The Writer's Cafe on Kindleboards came up with this idea. I figured...what the hell? Go for it!

For Day 1, I did 1,368 words. I'll need to average much more than that per day to hit the 60,000 words, but I can do it. I'll post weekly updates here with my progress.

Anyone else want to join me in this? C'mon, it'll be fun!

2012 - A Buddy Gott Odyssey!

Well, that was pretty dramatic, huh?

I don't know about an odyssey, but I do plan to make this a very good year for myself with my writing. I'm currently working on a short story which I'm going to publish in the next couple of weeks. That is, if it's still a short story. It looks like it may be taking on the length of a novella, which is fine, of course.

Length-wise, it will be whatever it needs to be. We'll see how it goes. Short story, novella, or even a short novel - I know I can have it done soon. I just have to make it happen. I've got a lot of free time ahead of me this weekend, so I plan to do a LOT of writing.

After this story is done, I've got three other books, all full-length novels that I'm going to work on. All three will be written and published this year.

Thanks for stopping by. Whether you're writing or reading or doing whatever it is that makes you happy, I hope you all have a fantastic weekend. Enjoy!

Early December Stuff

So, this wasn’t my year for NaNoWriMo. I didn’t come anywhere close to hitting 50,000 words. Am I upset? Nah. I had a lot of personal things going on and those were a higher priority than writing. Plus, what I was able to write for NaNo is still going to be useable. I’m going to work hard and try to get the story done as fast as I can.

My original writing goal for this year was to have a novel published by the end of the year. I don’t see how that’s possible now unless I put out something that would be of a lower quality than I’d like. There’s no way I’m going to do that.

So, time to change that original goal. The new goal is to finish writing the novel by the end of the year. Very doable.

I’m also toying with writing some short stories and publishing them. I’ve got a couple of ideas that I’m excited about.

It’s going to be a fun month.

NaNo, Uh Oh!

So, I signed up for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and was off to a pretty decent start at the beginning of the month...then things went downhill. Not so much with the story but with things that took away from my time to work on it.

I'm ridiculously behind on it now but hey, it's only November 18. Lots of time left. I can still do this!

P.S. to my friends who have been participating in NaNo and have been doing well with it: Congrats and thanks for inspiring me!

October Stuff

Wow, it's been a little while since my last posting, huh? For the one or two of you who visit here, sorry about that!

Well, my novel has been coming along and my hope is that it'll be done soon. I'd love to have it completed by the end of the month and I'm going to do my best to make that happen. Thankfully, my work schedule has recently changed and I've got more writing time available.

When this book is done, I'm going to dive right into the next one. I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month next month and I'm looking forward to it.

Who knows? I might even be able to have two novels done and published by the end of the year.

That would be pretty cool. :-)

The New T.V. Season Is Here...

...and there's very little about it that excites me.

I used to be a television junkie. When the new t.v. season started, I was like a kid in a candy store.

Now? Not so much.

Granted, maybe it's me and not the quality of (or lack thereof) of the shows that is making me watch less. I'm more into writing and reading now.

There's only a handful of returning shows that I'm looking forward to. These include: The Office, 30 Rock, Castle, and The Big Bang Theory. Even among those, the only "must see" one for me will be The Office. I'm looking forward to seeing how it is without Steve Carell. I'm a big James Spader fan and I bet he'll be great on there.

As far as the new shows go, I can't think of any that I'm especially interested in seeing.

Then again, who knows? There might be something new that knocks my socks off.

If not, there's more than enough books out there to keep me entertained forever.

Vacation!

Thanks for stopping by, but I'm on vacation this week. Will return early next week.

Hope you have a fantastic week. Enjoy!