I feel like editing is the bane of my existence. No matter how much I edit, there’s always more to edit. I’m about a quarter of the way through the fourth draft’s edits, which so far have been minor, but it still needs to be done. It’s been going a lot slower than I want […]
I finished the third draft a week and a half ago and think I’ve incorporated all of the editor’s feedback in a way that makes sense and works for the story. The next step is that I have to go through the process of reading the entire third draft again, page by page, chapter by […]
I won’t lie, when I first got Lauren’s feedback on my second draft, I was disheartened. I wanted to just throw the whole thing away and give up. With the lack of success of A Sour Chord and the negative feedback for the (then current) draft of My Last Days, I thought it might be […]
After reading (and re-reading and re-reading) Lauren’s assessment of My Last Days and reluctantly agreeing with most of what she said, it’s time to go back to the drawing board. At first, it felt like she was cutting down my work, which made me a little upset. I think that’s understandable though, no one wants […]
I’m really excited to share the news that Lauren, my editor extraordinaire, has received my second draft of My Last Days and has begun her journey on removing all of my unnecessary commas, overuse of characters thinking out loud, and she’ll probably point out how my main character’s a moron or something equally overlooked by […]
There’s four major eBook providers, well three major ones and then Google. Of those major players (Google, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon), only Amazon lets you make your book free for a period of time. You get five days every six months to make your book free. I had good luck with it when […]
I worked for UPS for exactly 1 week in my early 20s. It was intense but also more terrible than anything else in my life. This story details that week of my life.
I can’t believe it’s been over a month since my last update. In fairness, I took a week off from everything – which is very unlike me – to move and get settled into my new place. As I sit at my desk in my new office, the sound of morning commuters zipping by on the road, […]
