Happy July Folks, Chapter One is available on the menu above. Nearly halfway through the rewrite/pre-story editor. Having fun fixing some of the most obvious NANOWRIMO goofs: POV shifts, talking head and summary scenes. Cutting and adding as I go. Currently over...
Chapter 13 was a beast as I discovered it was chapter of telling not showing. It probably took as long to rewrite right as it took to write it wrong in the first place. I'm still moving in the wrong direction of numbers of words. Well, I'm sure there are places to cut...
On the writing side: Finished rewrites on Chapter 5-10 yesterday. Feels like the rwrite is going well. I found myself getting lost in the story! Cory Skerry, fellow Bellingham Writers Group member, has asked to use my covers as good examples in a workshop on what...
Progress on rewrites: I am about 1/7th of the way through rewrites. I started tracking word count changes, but lost track. So much cutting of paragraphs and words and then rewriting, adding. I need an App that monitors words cut and words added. I think I should get a...
Just got my cover art set for my e-book Fiction and Poetry Collection: Outward Bound. The collection will include the story Outward Bound, reprints of other published fiction and poetry. There was also be at least one new unpublished Deserted Lands story. I hope to...
WARNING: I am triple posting this because I want to let people know, just in case anyone is actually biting their nails… Well. Chuckanut Writers Conference was awesome. I learned an incredible amount about market and publishing. The biggest thing I learned… Wait for...
Robert L. Slater, author of the young adult, apocalyptic science fiction series Deserted Lands, has worked as a teacher in the beautiful Pacific Northwest for 20 years. Like some of his characters, he has a propensity for speaking in lines from 80s movies, drinking Mountain Dew and eating pizza.