Author Archives: Mark P. Kolba

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 »

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 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 »

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 »