Juggling two balls really isn't that hard. Three takes some practice. Four—I've never been able to juggle four balls without dropping one real quick. That's pretty much what happened to me these past few weeks, with my writing being the fourth ball.

That's not to say I did nothing, but it's been a few weeks since I've actually sat down and wrote or edited anything. Things are clearing a bit, though, and I hope to get back to it this weekend if not sometime during the week.

I'll leave it at that so I can get down to refreshing my mind as to where I last left off…

I was allowing myself some time to make a leap. That leap has to do with my current fantasy novel. Specifically, how to make it rise above the rest, so to speak. I think I've re-stumbled upon an idea I'd had way back when I started this venture. I'd steered away from this particular idea for reasons I'm not entirely sure of anymore. But, with the majority of the novel laid out, I think it's time to go back and add some additional layering. Sorry to speak in such abstracts, and because of that this post will conclude post-haste.

The end result of this shift into re-discovered territory is that I'm going to spend some time doing some research. ... [More]

A weekly progress report as I work through the (second pass) editing of my current fantasy novel.

Alright, so I made absolutely no progress this past week. Actually, that's not true. I advanced my edit page by 1 to 307 out of 367. It's a bit frustrating, especially given that I'm so close to finishing this edit, and, to tell you the truth, I'm not even sure how the week got away from me. One thing came up, and another, and another, and so on, and I just never quite sat down to get any writing done.

OK, even that's not entirely true. I hit upon a climatic part of the story and I did spend some time thinki... [More]

Note: If you're visiting from Tor Books, welcome. If not, and you're interested in signing up for Tor's Free E-book Giveaway, you can still sign up at their site, though they're almost done with the promotion. Right about July 20, 2008 is the end. Tor's promotion is over and as far as I know the links have been taken down. Sorry if you missed it.

I've been running a series of blog posts, one each week, featuring each of Tor's free e-book giveaways. In short, each post delves a bit into that week's e-book and provides some background on the author.

In addition, if you're interested in downloading the e-books, ... [More]