Daily NaNoWriMo Writing Updates for “Legion on the March”

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We are two weeks out from NaNoWriMo and my latest project “Legion On The March.” This is going to be the first book in my new “Legion of Solon” series. The most exciting thing for you, my readers, is that I plan to live blog the writing of this book. What does this mean? It means I will post daily (usually) chapter updates as I write them for the NaNoWriMo contest. This is kind of scary for me since it means you get to see my crappy firs drafts. I know, “Everyone’s first draft is crappy,” you say. Still it will show you the beginnings of this story in all its raw glory. You will see some things that will not make it into the final edit of the book and you’ll see some things that might move or change Read more…

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Prepping for NaNoWriMo in November

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I published my first novel this year with the “Extreme Medical Services” book. That book started as a challenge to complete the NaNoWriMo contest in November 2014. Since then I’ve published that novel, written a prequel novella (The Vampire and the Paramedic) and the first draft of the second “Extreme Medical Services” book (Paramedic’s Folly). The series will consist of at least three full-length novels and at least one prequel novella. I plan to publish and release that second ExMS novel in December around the holidays. New Fantasy Project In The Works So, with that under my belt and NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) approaching, I decided to start a new project series called the “Legion of Solon Trilogy.” It will follow the story of a teenage girl of noble birth who enlists and goes off to war with her brothers Read more…

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Driving Long Distances and Pondering Storylines

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I’ve been doing a lot of traveling by car recently. I have put over 3,000 miles on the car over the thirty days on either side of this blog post. While this travel time has put a crimp in my writing schedule (when home, I try to write 2,500 words or about one chapter a day), I have put the time driving to good use. It’s true I didn’t hit my writing targets during the recent trips, only hitting about 600 words a day on average. Still, the time was not wasted. Spending six to eight hours behind the wheel on the interstate give your brain plenty of time to ponder lots of things. I spent much of the time working and re-working story lines in my mind for Dean, Brynne, Ashley and James in the Extreme Medical Services world. Read more…