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Disappointing day at the Word Mine

I did get some stuff written today, but not nearly enough. I finished off the chapter I started last night, adding 1550 words there, and tossed another fifteen-hundred on other jobs. The total for the day was 3000 or so, which is well below the mark I need to be hitting. What happened? Life. I […]

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Word Count Wednesday

It’s been a very long day. I got up before dawn and started working on some non-book material. I’m writing up information about a project Bob Vardeman and I discussed with a lot of authors at the World Fantasy Convention. I tacked 1,500 words on to the basic document before breakfast. It’s going to be […]

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NaNoWriMo Ring

On my first day I knocked down two chapters, comprising roughly 5,000 words and change. I’ve yet to knock off for the day, but I’ll be noodling around on another project, getting stuff down, so that’s all I’ll do on the novel for today. It’s going well—still feeling my way through a couple of things, […]

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Back to normal and NaNoWriMo

The flight back to Phoenix was a bit late, but very pleasant. Steven Erikson and I sat together on the flight (he was on his way back to London). We swapped stories—he talked about getting swatted by a bear, I mentioned getting swatted by Mike Tyson. He talked about almost dying in the middle of […]

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NaNoWriMo, Crown Colonies and me

I apologize for not getting the third in my intended blog posts about new media and career planning done yet. It’s gotten a bit longer than I expected, so I might have to split it into two or more posts. I’ve got some notes out to friends to help me with costing out a couple […]

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My New Project

A number of folks have asked recently what I’m working on. Yeah, I know, it’s been a bit since there’s been a new book out there. Such is the life of a writer that not everything you write gets published right away—or sometimes at all. Since I write for money, if someone wants a development […]

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