Okay, so break time is almost over for me. Kind of/sort of. I haven’t finished playing Dragon Age: Inquisition just yet, but I’m feeling the itch to do some more writing stuff. Actually, I haven’t exactly taken a break per se. A few weeks ago, I spotted a Kickstarter for…
So this past Monday morning, I posted kind of a cryptic announcement on my Facebook page: It was a late night last night, but it was worth it, for now, the time has come to kill some dragons.Let the reader understand. Posted by John W. Otte on Monday, August 17,…
My goodness, I kind of disappeared there, didn’t I? Last time I reported in, I said that I had hit a kind of milestone in my work-in-progress, the (still!) untitled first book in a science fiction trilogy that might be called “The Iron Staff Trilogy” (although truth be told, I’m…
Let me tell you a little story about brainstorming my current work-in-progress, Book #1 of the Iron Staff Trilogy.
Well, this was a bit of a stumble. Busy week, busy week. On Friday, I took a side-trip to write a blog article (namely this one, which I think a lot of you have already read). Then on Saturday, my congregation held a community cookout, which was a lot of…
So I tried something new with this book: That’s the corkboard in Scrivener for The Iron Staff Book 1. This is the first time I’ve written a complete book with that particular program. Or rather, it will be the first time I write a complete book using Scrivener. I probably…
Okay, it’s been a while. I’ve got no excuse. I’ve been a bit lazy. But it’s time to knuckle down. I need to focus. I need to land this thing. I’m talking about the first draft for The Iron Staff Book One (still looking for a title for this thing).…
So I think I’m finally starting to get a little more time to write. Not a lot, but enough to make a little traction. Current wordcount for the Iron Staff trilogy Book #1 – 44,007 words Words added since last update – 3,827 The sad thing is, I’m now past…
So it’s been a while. I’ll just keep this short and sweet. The Iron Staff Current Wordcount: 40,180 Words added since last report: 7,588 Technically, this means I’m about halfway to my projected goal of 85,000 words, but I don’t think that’ll be quite enough. I’m not at the story’s…
As I suspected, this week wasn’t fantastic in terms of writing. Lots of stuff to do, what with it being Holy Week and all. Part of that is also because I did some brainstorming on a new book idea. That took a bit of the time I would have spent…