Mark’s Writing
2015 year-end summary and goals for 2016
After a slow year for writing in 2014 and a slow start to the year in 2015, it was great to get back to a more productive pace again during the latter half of 2015. In my 2015 goals post, I set a goal of 200,000 words for the year even though I’d originally planned to shoot … Continue reading
Goals for 2015
I’m going to keep it simple this time. My primary goals for 2015 are twofold: Publish The Emerald Veil (Book 2 in the Mirynthir Chronicles) Publish Starliners (Galaxy-building card game of intergalactic trade) My secondary goals are probably best left to myself, as they are a little more ambitious and likely only a subset of … Continue reading
2014 year-end summary
So we’ve come to the end of another year . . . a glance back at my year end report from 2013 feels a bit like reading a Tale of Two Cities. 2014 certainly didn’t match 2013 in terms of overall productivity. I missed my yearly goal, and I also missed my updated in-year goal … Continue reading
Fourth quarter writing progress
I’m finally getting around to wrapping up my 2014 writing progress blog posts (yes, I heard that snicker over there in the corner . . . I know that we’re already into February :-) ), and in the interest of thematic matching, I figured that the fourth quarter progress post should mimic the amount of … Continue reading
Third quarter writing progress
I’ve decided to drop down to a quarterly report with my writing progress updates. A cynical person would suggest that I’m dropping down to a quarterly report to disguise the fact that I haven’t been making much writing progress lately. A generous person would suggest that I’m dropping down to a quarterly report so that my … Continue reading
June writing progress
As the year goes along, I feel more and more like we’re probably going to need a readjustment of the original goal of 200,000 words for 2014! I think that my new informal goal will simply be to finish The Emerald Veil by the end of the year, which should at least put me past … Continue reading
May writing progress
As I mentioned in my earlier post, May was a month full of many wonderful moments and many short nights of sleep as my wife and I welcomed our twins to the world. It’s hard to believe that the little ones are over a month old now as I write this! I did manage to do a … Continue reading
April writing progress
April saw a dramatic improvement in writing progress over what was accomplished in March (although that certainly doesn’t take too much to achieve!). And yes, before everyone begins to comment about this, I’m aware that it’s already the beginning of June and that I’m long overdue with this post. The reason is quite simple and … Continue reading
March writing progres
This is one of those months where I’m just going to cut right to the chase, such as it is: March, 2014: 928 words Hey, it’s better than zero, right? And it leaves lots of room for improvement next month :-) The good news is that I finished my edits on Shattered and sent it … Continue reading
February writing progress
February turned out to be another busy month with a lot going on, but I was able to make good progress on several different projects, which was a lot of fun. I’ve been doing more rewriting on Shattered than I originally expected, so I’m still working on that (although I really do think that I’m … Continue reading