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At the Queen’s Command is finished! The current draft comes in around175,000 words. In editing it probably won’t gain or lose from that total. Words that get clipped at the start will be put back in through the middle and end to clarify things. It’s amazing how much can be conveyed with an adjective here, […]

I knocked out what should be the next-to-the-last chapter in At The Queen’s Command today. It ran long, but not too long. I believe no one will complain and it is pitching toward stuff that will go on in future stories. If I were to end the book here, it would be okay, save that […]

You didn’t miss a post yesterday—I never got to doing any writing. It was one of those weird, discombobulated days. I headed off to soccer too early, then returned home to cool my heels for an hour before going. (Fun game, I had a goal, we won, but just only barely, playing against folks we […]

I knocked off another chapter today after taking time to figure out how I’m ending this book. I think I have three chapters left. Could be four. We’ll see. As it is, things went together well and I am very pleased with how things appear to be tying themselves up. Before I started working on […]

I ground out another chapter and this one was pure fun. Lots of action, with of a turn of events that will be a bit of a surprise. I enjoyed writing this one because not only does it tie up some things in this novel, but opens a very wide door to things that will […]

I finished one of my two climactic chapters today, and will knock the other one off tomorrow. The sequence will run about 11,000 words between them, which goes against the 2,500 words per chapter dictum that I recommend to many writers. The caveat here is that these chapters are broken down into 1,000 word sections […]

I turned out a chapter’s worth of words today before my hands started hurting. To give my hands some time off, I did some work around the house, packed up some orders and prepped some things for Christmas. It was a light day for physical activity, at least until the evening. I went dancing and […]