Work Post!

I am blogging at work! How crazy is that?

So I ended having a creative issue today that I was unable to get around. I had several options on where I could take the book and no clue where any of those would have lead. I happen to be, or at least I think I am, a discovery writer. This means that I do not always have an outline ready to go off of when I sit down to write.

I have several people in my life who are very creative and I sent a message to two of these people with no answer back. I ended up talking to my wife (who claims to be not creative at all) and she helped me find the path that would work best with my book in no time at all. In a way, this post is for those people who think they have no creativity. I am told that I am pretty creative and I ended up being completely lost on my own.

Thanks Aaronne!

Hermes

So I have not mentioned my writing buddy, Hermes the plant, in awhile so I figured I would give a small update on him! For those who do know know Hermes is an orchid that I rescued from work, they stopped watering and let bugs infest it, and nursed back to health. In a couple of weeks he lost his flowers and no new growth was visible. The long thin stock was suppose to die and a new one would grow but in this case this did not happen.


Apparently he is just as unusual as his owner...

A thought came to me...

and I just realized that I have made it to my word count goal way ahead of schedule. I had given myself until the end of July so I had 39 days left. Now i just have to finish the story with no worries where my word count is.

My dilemma now is what to do with this blog. The original thought behind this blog was to keep myself accountable and let people know how I was doing on this project. Now that I am just about done I am going to have to change direction on here. Maybe I should let people know how my edits are coming or post where I have tried to sell my novel (and any rejections I might received). The last idea I have is to turn the novel into serialized fiction, both written on here and audio podcast, and put that on here.

Maybe I will just do all of the above... I have plenty of time to think about it.

P.S.
Check out the trailer to Scott Sigler's new novel Ancestor, in stores now! I already have my copy and started to read it. To get some of his work as a free audio podcast visit his site here!

50,000

Quick update

Word count: 47947
Pages typed out: 179 (this does not count any handwritten pages)

It is a really bad idea trying to write and watch mythbusters... just saying.

Thursday Morning

Well just giving the word count update (47610). The writing is going a little slower then I want but I have been a little distracted lately with some stuff that is going on. Between some family drama, golfing Tuesday, work and then some extra work on my next project my time is disappearing quickly.

I guess I will just have to suck it up and finish...

A typed update? No way...

So I ended up doing some video updates and a small plug here and there but I have not done any real post lately and I thought that should change. I have been working on the novel as well as planning a few ideas out for a couple of other projects out. Cannot say much on those right at this moment other then I still plan on working 95% of the time on Americoma.

As far as the novel goes, I have managed to finish writing chapter 17 and I have close to 200 words for chapter 18. I am also hoping to have the 50,000 words by the end of the week.

That is all I really have for right now!

Updated word count

46909

Video Update #3

Hoodwink Chronicles

I have mentioned this comic at least once on the blog before but this week I was asked to do a short video introduction for the comic! Come check it out here and tell Judah you want to see me in the comic!