Editing continues. After writing my note on my US Naval Academy Classmates, I realized I haven’t talked much about what I’m doing now as far as writing is concerned. I have gone fishing a few times, but I’ll save that for later. About two weeks ago I finished making the…
Just a quick note to comment on something that just happened. As you may know from my bio, I am a graduate of the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. The Alumni Association has a periodical alumni magazine called Shipmate that tells what’s going on by class year, etc. I always…
Just came back from my third Write On the River experience at the home of Best Selling Author Bob Mayer and Deb Cavanaugh on the Tennessee River in Knoxville. It‘s a beautiful place as you can guess by the poster picture. And the two labs, Becca and Gus make you…
I’m just about finished with my second re-write of Future Discovered and am still amazed at how much I am learning and how much more I have to learn. Fortunately, my editor Tammy Slayer is really good and a great teacher as well. I mentioned that I had 125 comments…
Another step in the process was completed on July 29th and August 1st when I sent the second drafts of Future Discovered and Immortal Guardian back to the editor. I got the editors comments on Future Discovered a week after submission, and it was better than the first edit! Even…
Ok, much to my amazement I just finished dealing with the remaining 38 editorial comments in Immortal Guardian. It went quicker than I thought. I just sent an email to my editor, Tammy, that I am now 100% certain I will have the two books back to her on August…
I finished the editorial changes to book 1 Future Discovered a little over three weeks ago and sent the re-written document out to some Beta readers. I took a little time away from the writing and then took on the edits and re-write of Immortal Guardian. Keep in mind I…
I was recently asked what I do about writer’s block. To me, the term writer’s block refers to a point in the story development where you have no idea what comes next or what to do. Initially, I would take a break and go for a walk or do something…
I’m taking a break from the re-write of Book 2, Immortal Guardian. As a new science fiction writer, I thought that in this book I would have done a better job than I did in Book 1, Future Discovered. In some cases, that’s true. In others … well let’s just…
Writing to me is fun. Laying out your ideas so they make sense and then hoping that others find it fun as you did when you were writing. My first book wasn’t really a book, it was my doctoral dissertation . . . but my committee chair kept calling it…
