In an effort to revive this daily blogging practice, here I am with updates! I am a few administrative clicks away from getting Childseeker into paperback mode. Hopefully the Christmas rush is done over at Amazon, so that a proof copy can get in my hands soon! Also working on […]

This is the first “daily” blog written in the new WordPress site! It’s late on Boxing Day (technically: early… as “today” was Christmas), and I passed out after dinner then woke up and painstakingly transferred the Wix blog content into the new environment… save the one (and only) monthly roundup […]

Sooo, about that daily blog… Right around November 1, there was a shift in life energy. More demands from work, combined with some downtime sickness shifted momentum away from writing (and exercise and eating halfway decent). It’s not a bad thing, but a thing to be noted. The momentum started […]

Yup! CHILDSEEKER part 1 is now past wordsmithing and into the paperback-making process. With a business trip looming and many tiny things still left to coordinate, I figure I’ll dig into the paperbacking mid next week, which should give enough time to make the end of month goal. NaNoWriMo didn’t […]

I don’t think I worked on edits today, because there was a ton of day-job work to be done and then a co-worker’s mini bachelor party at Toronto’s newest, craziest arcade venue: The Rec Room. I thought it was a pub of sorts and was totally overwhelmed with the casino […]

Applying the edits, I should say. I make the markup front to back, and then the actual application back to front, mostly because the first chapter had the most work, IMO. And it helped with planting things in the beginning that “bloom” in the end.

Around this time, they announce the Giller award winner. I recently learned that it pays out WAY more than Pulitzer ($100,000 CAD vs $15,000 USD), for fiction at least. Go Canada!

As in my memory, per Nov 19’s blog. Please refer there, massive crowd of people who check this blog 😉

This is what happens when you slack on the daily blog commitment! Generally, between this date and the 24th, I was doing my final line edit on CHILDSEEKER, which consisted of marking up a paper copy then applying those changes. Also, somewhere in this time, I cut down on the […]

This is what I remember from this day. Admittedly, the daily blog’s been a challenge as my energy is sucked into other aspects of life. Started a new bodyweight fitness routine designed to correct some classic white collar desk chair muscle imbalances… not exactly writing news, but all writers who […]