Hit 3107 words yesterday to raise $62.14 for St. Jude Children’s Cancer Research Fund. My 77,777 word novel is now over 90,000 words! Rewriting Ch. 31 of 37. Discovered that handcuffs connecting three people magically disappeared. Found a cool video that shows how to...
Will you pledge $ to St. Judes based on the number of words I write tomorrow? My biggest writing day was 6,000 words. I hope to hit 3,000 tomorrow. If you will pledge please go to http://dreadfulcafe.com/iron-writer for a flat rate pledge and if you want to pledge...
Please feel free to share the pertinent information below. I'm feeling antsy about not releasing the book until 2014, because I keep finding similar stories, universes, etc. Some are even set in Seattle! So, the reason to delay is to give the book a chance to develop...
Over 87,000 words now. [Pretty sure the total words written on this book exceeds 100K now.] It takes more words to show rather than tell. And even as I'm cutting basic body function words that don't move the plot forward, expose character or provide setting, I'm...
Working on rewrite of Ch 22 of 36. Averaging 2.2 chapters per day. Still aiming to have all of the current rewrite done by 7/12. The next focus will be on readying Outward Bound: Speculative Fiction and Poetry which will include two unpublished Deserted Lands short...
The Bellingham Herald will be publishing our Serial Speculative Fiction Story starting on July 22nd. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Bellingham 100 years in the future. Lots of local color and darn good yarn considering it was written by Six authors who each had 800...
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.