Mark’s Writing

I’m a little late getting to the monthly writing update this time . . . you blink once or twice and somehow it’s already the middle of February.  Crazy!  January saw me finish the rough draft of Shattered and make good progress on the edits.  I’m finishing up my first-round edits now, and soon the … Continue reading »

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what goals I should set for myself in 2014.  Some of them are pretty easy to settle on.  I want to finish up Shattered and publish it.  I want to finish and publish the second book in the Mirynthir Chronicles series, The Emerald Veil.  I think that … Continue reading »

Now that 2013 is over, it’s time to tally up my words for the year and see how they stack up against the goals that I laid out for myself last January.  My goal for the year was 200,000 words, and my actual writing for the year totaled: 2013:  221,020 words In other words, I … Continue reading »

As I suspected, December turned out to be a very busy month with work and then visiting with family, so not a whole lot of writing happened.  I am nearly finished with a first draft of Shattered, and I am still anticipating accomplishing the major editing in January, which would keep me on track with … Continue reading »

Well, December has certainly been a busy month so far (as you can probably tell from the fact that I’m posting my November progress update halfway through December and not in the first few days!).  I’m expecting that it will continue to be busy for the rest of the month between work and time with family.  November … Continue reading »

So this month I’ve been working on a political/terrorism thriller novel.  I’m finally getting towards the home stretch on it, but it’s definitely been more challenging to write than I had anticipated that it would be.  I’m not entirely sure why, but I’ve had a lot more “stuck” moments on this book than I did … Continue reading »

It’s hard to believe that it’s already October . . . the summer has flown past and now fall is in the air.  Well, not quite yet for us.  We’ve actually had really beautiful weather over the last few weeks and it hasn’t really turned cold yet.  I’m sure it’s coming, but for now I’ll … Continue reading »

Another month has passed, bringing us more or less to the end of summer and the gradual transition into fall.  It’s always crazy how quickly the summer flies by, and this year was no different.  The good news is that I was got started on some new projects this month and was able to make … Continue reading »

July saw the completion of my first-round edits to The Awakening and saw the manuscript shipped off to my beta readers.  As with June, actual word-count writing progress has been slow in July since editing doesn’t always net you a whole lot of new words at the end of the day.  I still got in … Continue reading »

Yes, I recognize that it’s nearly the end of July, but I never did report on my June progress, so I figure that now is as good a time as any.  There’s actually relatively little to report in terms of word count progress since essentially all of June (and all of July to this point) … Continue reading »