Darklight is released to my beta readers!

by | Apr 10, 2013 | darklight

After working on Darklight for the past two years, a novel that has floated around in my mind in different forms for probably twenty years, it felt great sending copies of it out to my beta readers. Now comes the hard part: waiting. I hate it when you have to wait for...

The hunger for Darklight returns

by | Apr 7, 2013 | darklight

Seven weeks. That’s how long Darklight has been sitting on the shelf since I finished it. I had started working on a couple overused expressions I had to fix. But believe me when I tell you that is NOT exciting. Writing a finale is awesome; fixing typos is...

Darklight is finished

by | Feb 15, 2013 | darklight

I just finished the last few scenes in Darklight tonight. It weighs in at 76,000 words. Feels great! Up until now, I had an idea, a concept. Now, I have a story. If an agent asks, I can hand it to him or her. It may not be perfect, but it’s complete. Time to...

My novel Darklight is resolved

by | Feb 3, 2013 | darklight

Resolution complete! I finally wrote the last scene to Darklight and it feels great. Ever since I nailed the beat sheet, I have been writing hard for six weeks. It feels like forever. I still have to flesh out one already existing subplot. In fact, there was a tidbit...

Sometimes I just sleep on it

by | Feb 2, 2013 | darklight

Courtesy of http://franckernewein.com/ As I previously wrote, I had just finished writing the climax scenes for Darklight. It was really exciting. I felt like I was hitting the high points. After doing that, I immediately jumped into writing the first resolution...

Darklight hits its climax

by | Feb 1, 2013 | darklight

Courtesy of http://franckernewein.com/ I just finished writing the last climax scene for Darklight, and it sure feels good! I have hit 65,000 words. I just have six final scenes to wrap up the resolution of my novel. But it’s not all done. Not yet. Adding a...