The polishing pass is done, and it's sent off. Fingers crossed that it all goes well and I'll be able to make some announcements sooner rather than later. Until then, onwards to the next project!

It's finally done. Roughly 120,000 words on the fourth draft, and it's done. Going to spend the next week or two re-reading, editing, and polishing it, and then hopefully the gears will start turning to have it in your hands soon.

I just started writing the final chapter of my next book. Very exciting day! To say that I binge wrote yesterday is an understatement. In the past 24 hours, I've written... 13000 words. Just another 5000 or so to go, and that's a wrap, and then I can start polishing.

Buddy was fascinated by SMB3 the other night; I think it's the only time I've ever seen him actually be distracted by something on the TV lol.

Just four chapters to go until the manuscript is done! Will still have to do editing / polishing passes, of course, but it's exciting to…

Here's a little #teaser from my new book! 👀 Exploring some very mind-bendy ideas.

It's also a good example of something I've been playing around with in the writing process, which is using apropos dialogue to continue the thoughts or actions from the previous paragraph. I…

this CANNOT be comfortable

Just passed the TOTAL word count of Sirens in my new manuscript! Very excited, that's a big milestone for me. Having never gotten close to this many words into ANY project before this since Sirens, I'm taking it as a very positive sign towards it's completeness.

I'm expecting…

He was having a certified Orange Moment earlier and was chewing on my curtains again, but now he seems content with his destruction.

Does anyone else record their gaming moments and upload them to youtube just to rewatch later on lol? I've been distracted today watching my old WoW boss kill videos, and realized I have like 10 years of old boss fights saved just for my own nostalgia.

Like this one was almost 9…

Dude is really just perching on my arm. Even when I move my hand back and forth to type and use the mouse, he just swings along with the movement, completely undisturbed 🥲

Braden Cawthon I love him so much

Orange cats are just the best cats period

How rude of me, I didn't even include an obligatory Buddy picture in my last post. Here's two, just for good measure.

He looks cute now but don't be fooled, he was being orange earlier and chewing on the toilet paper in my bathroom.

I've found that an exceptional weakness of mine is a difficulty getting back into the flow of a book after a break, even just over a weekend. I'm sitting here staring at this page where I left of like... who are these people? What's the tempo supposed to be like here? The…

Buddy likes sitting in my lap and propping himself up on my arm while I write 🥲 it's a bit distracting, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Just finished up with act one of draft four! Feeling extremely positive about it still, this might be the final structural draft before revisions. The quality and volume of the writing compared to when I first started writing is kind of hilarious.

By manuscript count (not…

I had to take Buddy to the vet yesterday for his annual shots; he's still feeling a bit icky and wanting some alone time. He's just been sitting in the living room on a chair, not wanting to come sit in my lap while I write. :(

Good news is that I'm getting close to the end of…

Had a great weekend away from the novel's word count with my girlfriend - we were on a binge of watching some of matthew lillard —Will block. 0-F’s-given 's older movies, so that I'd have a greater appreciation of having met him on set lol. Without a Paddle was great, but to be honest, seeing the Shaggy…

Any of y'all still play World of Warcraft? For the few of you that do, or did, I'm sure you can appreciate the multi-tasking of camping for the Time-Lost Proto Drake on one monitor while I write on the other. EFFICIENCY.