In my last post I mentioned that I was finished with my revisions of Renegade’s Door except for the proofreading. Well… proofreading has taken a bit longer than anticipated. But I can’t really complain, since the friend who’s doing the job for me is working gratis. That’s right, unpublished author here working on a non-existent [...]
It’s been a few weeks since my last journal post. I’ve been spending all of my writing time on Renegade’s Door revisions, but I’m happy to say that I finished the lasts scene late last night! Hooray! I have a copy out with my volunteer proofreader right now (and my heartfelt thanks to Colleen for [...]
It may not be as impressive as juggling chainsaws, but keeping a balance between multiple priorities is challenge enough for me. Recently I’ve spent most of my free time revising my NaNoWriMo manuscript, The Renegade’s Door. Unfortunately that means I’ve been getting behind on new posts. My Renewable Technology series is overdue for another article [...]
I’m afraid that I’m running out of steam on Renegade. Already I find myself thinking about themes for the next novel as I drift off to sleep. And my progress on the manuscript has been maddeningly slow lately. In order to inject a bit of urgency back into the work, I have decided to set [...]
Hello readers. This week I have been working on revisions to Renegade (still). I’ve outlined two out of the three new scenes I decided to add after feedback from my pre-readers. But I haven’t managed to start drafting the new scenes yet. I keep finding other things to occupy my time. Today it was a [...]
This week I participated in the WOOF contest with one of the scenes from The Renegade’s Door. I made it into the list of top picks. Yay! Here are the other winners from this week’s contest WOOF Contest – Top Picks: Poetry Web-Betty – “Diffident is spring” – A poem about the beauty of spring, [...]
This week I’ve been working on a few revisions to my NaNoWriMo manuscript, The Renegade’s Door. I had a few friends read through my pre-read copy and give me some feedback, which was great. I’m adding three new scenes to the story to help develop some of the character relationships in the second half of [...]
During the past few weeks the traffic on my blog has doubled. Evidently word is getting out. So if you’re a new reader, welcome to Richard-Rowland-Perkins.com . Here’s what I’ve been up to in the last week: Renegade’s Door revisions – My 2008 NaNoWriMo novel is currently out with my hand chosen pre-readers for feedback. [...]
Since my last post, I’ve made some promising progress… and suffered a few setbacks. Are you an optimist or a pessimist? (If you answered that question by claiming to be a realist… you and I have something in common ) I’ll start out with the bad news. I got the final verdict on my pending [...]
The first few days of the new year have been busy ones for me. I’ve lined up three volunteer readers for my first manuscript revisions: a big thanks to April, Dan, and Margot for that. Yesterday afternoon I had transcribed about 80% of my red-line revisions onto my computer. That means I should be able [...]
