Through the Eyes of a Pirate

So this past Thursday was our third critiquing session with the UW. I had submitted “Blood & Puppies” for critique. I gotta thank everyone for their feedback once again. Just like with “Tactical Medics” and “Bloodspurt”, I think I learned a lot about my writing, and where my faults still exist. It’s good knowing that I have been progressing and getting...

So this past Thursday, my writing group, The Underground Writers, did our third big critique session. It was our first session with a new member (Julia Muldoon) in the group so we were all pretty eager to see how things would turn out, what kind of information would get exchanged, and what her piece would look like. On the whole, things turned out really well. The pieces were generally newer (or o...

Another busy month in the making here. A couple Mondays back, I was coming up with some YA novel ideas (most of which sucked). Found a neat little scholarship through Penguin that would be nice to get next year, so I’ve pushed a couple things aside that I wanted done earlier so I can get a good push on this scholarship possibility. Last Thursday I was trying (somewhat unsuccessfully) to cont...

Today was the first Underground Writers meeting of the decade. We gathered at the old cheese shop, caught up on everything that happened over the holiday break, and discussed our goals for the upcoming year. My goals: Complete Hedged In and get my free proof copy. Complete the first draft of Sudbury Sealed by the end of February. Organize and run Script Frenzy in April. Write a short story a month...

So before I turned in yesterday, I had managed to finish the first draft of Blood & Puppies, shred through it at a leisurely pace, and spit out a second draft. Tonight I plan to give it another run through so I can send out my third draft for critiquing. I think it’s a decent story, but I worry that some parts may not be as transparent as I think they are. I’ll keep a sharp eye for...

Alright, so today is day 172 of the Underground Writers. I’ve been pretty lax with the updates over the season, but that seems to be universal. Being a writing blog, I guess I should update on that. I’ve more or less done nothing since my last update. Well, I’ve gone through most of my NaNo novel and crossed out, made notes, and worked on outlining it, but I’m not even clos...

Here we are, only a day away from the end of the year. It’s customary at this time to review everything that’s happened over the course of the past 364 days. I was holding out for a little while longer in the hopes that something different might find its way into my inbox before the year was out. Naturally, nothing really arrived, so here we go. In 2009 I stepped down from my position...

Not sure what exactly I’ve managed over the past week or so, but I do know what I managed today. Today I read up on the free proof copy I’ll get from Createspace because of my NaNo win. There’s a deadline on it of July 2010. To me, that means I have to have this stuff all edited by Mid-May 2010 at the latest. So I started working on that today. Took an hour to get through the spe...

Having crossed the finish line way back on Day 129, I rested on my laurels, writing only a 1394 word letter to the NaNo crew between Day 130 and 132. Today was our Underground Writers meeting, so we did ourselves a couple of sprints. I continued to run sprints through the @SudSprinter account on Twitter (and was joined by six people). As a result, I managed to scribble down an additional 3,672 wor...

Wrote 10,063 words and crossed the 50k mark during the night/morning. I also wrote a 1,956 word letter to someone… Most of it will probably need to be cut before I send it. Go figure. AKPC_IDS += "430,";Popularity: 1% [?]