In our frantic search for replacement beta readers for Dead Man’s Trigger a few months ago, I was asked about making advance reader copies, or ARCs, available to a selected audience before publication. At the time – neck-deep in a troublesome manuscript edit that I wasn’t sure I could complete on schedule – it wasn’t a prospect I could entertain with any […]
One last word cloud and I mean to be done until Dead Man’s Trigger is ready to go. I needed, I just had to see how the intensity of that final scene in Raven’s Tears came out as a word cloud. My jaw dropped when I saw it. Clicking on it should give you a larger image, so you can […]
This quote sums up like 90% of my depressive episodes, right here. Substitute “depression” for “darkness” and you have it. I wonder if this is true for writers in general, that our depressive bouts are generally due to being lost in an inner world without words? Still with that three-day sale – Raven’s Tears is doing well with Kindle lovers […]
Mobile gear means we don’t have to stay home to get work done, so sometimes we don’t. Our files are still on our server at home and we access them just as we would if they were on Drive or Dropbox. These early sessions mostly consist of Michael and I writing new solo scenes for insertion into the manuscript, or […]
As the title foretells, as of tonight we officially have a second draft for Dead Man’s Trigger. It is a “whirligig of time,” as the old playwright wrote, and well it should be. Everything in Iris’ world turns inside-out, by the end of it. My eyeballs are furry. I can’t write fast enough. Is it Dead Man’s Trigger, yet? AE […]
Michael and I worked into the night, last night, but we got the scene list done for the front end of Dead Man’s Trigger. Thinking. Feeling. Oh, okay. “Scheming and plotting,” if you’re going to be persnickety about it. Call it whatever you want, I don’t mind. Today, I get to resume WRITING the story. I couldn’t be any happier. […]
Michael and I are well into the second hack of this manuscript. We’re building a new scene list. We’ve tagged the scenes that don’t work (i.e, most of them, but it’s still very first-drafty!) with keywords that tell us how to rewrite them, later . We’ve put all edged implements under lock and key for the duration. Here’s a […]
