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We are back from the beach, where I started book three, but didn’t make too much progress. It was very hard to work without sleep, and it was very hard to sleep there. I also had some things I needed to do today, so there wasn’t a ton of time. But I did get the…

I’ve mentioned before that the blog timestamp and my actual time do not match, but they are within about a day of each other. So I’m writing this on July 29th. Today we put up two Christmas trees, in honor of an upcoming release of Amazon’s Rings of Power. We’re watching the Hobbit movies (it…

As already noted on this blog, this was my first book. Not the first book I ever considered publishing – the first book I ever wrote. I’d written short-form fiction in the past, and I write boring things at work all the time. But nothing as ambitious as an entire book. Written in a month.…

I started this blog about the same time as I started the first book, and it’s title as of the time I’m writing this is still “Pretentious Self Published Author Blog” with a subtitle “please don’t read my blog yet.” As you might imagine, this means that I am not really trying to get visitors,…

Today I learned of a playlist on Spotify called “Brown Noise”, which is like white noise but only in lower frequencies. I think I like it. I’m not sure yet. 25,000

So the type of writing that I am doing is called “discovery writing.” I have a set of characters in mind, and a setting, and a general idea of where I am headed – but then I just sit down and start writing. Sometimes the characters surprise me, and I have to go back and…

I’ve mentioned before that I have to set goals for myself to stay on track with the writing. Typically, if I can focus on the work, I can get two hours of writing in between dinner and bedtime. This week my real job required my attention in the evenings, though, so there just wasn’t much…

I finished the first draft of the book. I likely rushed through some bits near the end, and I need to go back and refactor two pieces to add more depth to characters that were throwaway at first, but developed their own plot points as things evolved. I’d always assumed that I’d go straight into…

This weekend started out normally, but on Saturday night I was suddenly no longer in control of my nose. It had developed a demonic personality, streaming despite the large amounts of allergy medicine I had taken. Since we are still (still) in the middle of a global pandemic that starts off masquerading as a cold,…

This is a song title in my book. That is all, other than I hit 51,000 words.