I must warn you before I begin that there will be brutal honesty running amok in this post.I must also tell you that whenever I hear the phrase "running amok" I flash back to my college days when my friends and I would pile into one dorm room to watch "Animaniacs." Yakko, Wakko, and Dot would often …
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Adventures in Writing–Feeling Stupid
I feel stupid right about now.Stupid and confused.I wrote Going in Circles, which turned into a volume one called Stalling Out and half of a volume two called Going in Circles. Now I'm wondering if I'm a wimp and I shouldn't have just gone into the original mega-volume and found 30,000 words to …
Adventures in Writing–Uh, This Is Harder Than I Expected
So, uhm, yeah. That whole thing in my last post about "all I have to do is write a new beginning and add some scenes to the second half"? Yeah. That was a stupid comment if I've ever written one.As it turns out, there was a natural ending about 77,000 words into my manuscript. Yay! Book one is …