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Today’s writ­ing was the fits-and-starts kind as I had to bal­ance the week­end chores and other dis­trac­tions with work time. It’s a frus­tra­tion that many of have shared, and really, there’s noth­ing to be done about it except get­ting the minu­tia done so that you have time to write. Today’s scenes were very action-oriented, which …

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3014 words for today. Although dia­logue and char­ac­ter­i­za­tion went well, I real­ized that the set­ting didn’t change for the last 15 pages. That would be fine later in the story. At the begin­ning, when you’re try­ing to intro­duce char­ac­ters, the set­ting needs to work over­time to give the reader some­thing to look at while you’re …

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Today’s work was writ­ing Chap­ter 2 of Invis­i­ble Sun.  It’s a fairly talky chap­ter with lots of char­ac­ter­i­za­tion and off-handed back­story, so I’m wor­ried about the lack of action.  I’ll make a note of it in my run­ning diary and revisit it later.  The sec­tion is also lack­ing sen­sory details, which I’ll drop into place …

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Day 1 of the fast draft of Invis­i­ble Sun went as expected. It took about two hours of seri­ous butt in chair time to crank out the words.  Not a fasdt pace but not slow, either. About what I expected for the first chap­ter. Even though I know the char­ac­ters well, hav­ing already writ­ten a …

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Today, I’m wal­low­ing in the glory that is social net­work­ing and the inter­net because tomor­row, I get busy with the draft­ing of Invis­i­ble Sun, the sequel to Black Hole Sun (sched­uled for release Winter/Spring 2012).  While the brain­storm­ing and cre­ation of scenes has gone on for six weeks now, I’ve yet to actu­ally write any …

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