by sjm | Feb 10, 2023 | 1000 Words
So I’ve been reading this book about style and writing and about 25% in it got me in the mood to start up again, but then I got busy, and then I got tired. I spend more time reading about writing and reading others to learn how to write better than I spend on...
by sjm | Jan 11, 2023 | 1000 Words
So I’m over 60,000 words into my paralell coming of age stories of a boy and a girl in two different life situations, and still, I can’t stop my recreational reading. Oh, I tell myself that it’s research and that it’ll be better for me, which...
by sjm | Dec 31, 2022 | The Dying Man
My last contact didn’t pan out. I guess it was fake, but I think I had a real one, which was cool. A voice talking back from the ether. A voice called Miriam.
by sjm | Dec 31, 2022 | 1000 Words
Is the working title of my novel in progress. I’m about 60,000 words in, all in the Scrivener program, which I don’t understand at all other than it is a stripped down word processor, and presumably I am a few clicks away from it spitting out a manuscript....
by sjm | Oct 26, 2022 | 1000 Words
This was perhaps the most useful look inside a girl’s head. I’m only half way through at the time of this writing, so not sure where it’s going, but it doesn’t strike me as a happy ending sort of story. I’m not sure if it’s...
