Posts Tagged With ‘ John Ross Boomer Lit ’

 I haven’t posted a blog in about three months. That’s a long time in cyberspace. It was my plan at the start to have a minimum of one post per week and usually exceeded that number.  But sometimes life gets in the way of intentions. It’s not like I’ve been in a vegetative state, even though I’m a vegetarian.  I’m still working on the third rewrite of the sixth book in my “John Ross Boomer Lit Series.” It hasn’t come along as smoothly as the previous entries, but still, there’s progress. I’d like to finish it in a few weeks... Continue Reading

A week ago I returned to a manuscript that had been in a file folder for nearly a year.  I had put it aside for various and sundry reasons.  For those who don’t follow my blog, I’m working  on the sixth book in the John Ross Boomer Lit series.  I confess that it’s been a rocky return to the manuscript. I work on a chapter each day with edits and rewrites. The problem is that I’m still not sure I like where the story is headed. I originally thought I could build on the 40k words and finish the first draft in a couple months. Perhaps that’ll happen once I get into... Continue Reading

 It’s been nearly a year since I saved the manuscript for my next novel on the hard-drive. I put it aside for reasons that I’ll keep to myself.  But on Feb. 1, I reopened it to begin work on the sixth book in my John Ross Boomer Lit series. It’s my hope to have a complete draft finished in two months.  I’ve written more than 41k words so my first task is to read what I’ve already written and go from there. So far it’s been almost like going over another writer’s words. That’s good because I’m giving a reader’s eye to the story. I’ll... Continue Reading

 This year wasn’t the most productive for me.  I reached a few of my personal goals. I don’t know if it’s age or what. Perhaps I don’t have the stamina and motivation. I don’t know if that’s attributable to growing older or simply limited interest in doing things. Only time will tell. On the writing front, I didn’t have many posts here, probably the fewest ever. As mentioned before, I don’t want to post something for the sake of posting something. It’s a waste of my time and of readers as well. I do plan to write more about music and travel.... Continue Reading

 It’s been a while since I’ve written anything here; on Feb. 11 to be exact when I posted about a few love songs for Valentine’s Day. For those who are concerned or curious, I have been writing. Just not here.  I’m a contributor on Medium, where I’ve had about five posts in recent weeks. I call them “Random thoughts” if you’d like to read them. I plan to eventually have them here. And I’ve written book reviews on Goodreads, Amazon, and other places.  Oh, almost forgot. I’m also working on the sixth book in the “John Ross Boomer... Continue Reading

 I’m back to writing again on a daily basis. Since my last post, I’ve written more than 15,000 words on my next novel. I guess you could say I got back in the groove. I’ve always said and advised others that the best way to write a novel (or nonfiction) is to do it on a daily basis. Some days are better than others, but after time you eventually reach a point where the words begin to flow. That’s where I am. While I don’t produce 3,000-4,000 words a day like I did in my younger days, I do write more than 1,000 and that seems to increase by the day. I do get somewhat... Continue Reading

 Last November I had an ill-fated experience with National Novel Writing Month, throwing up my hands and giving up after a week or so. I only wrote about 5,500 words that had little direction, almost reading like a stream of consciousness.  I opened the file again this morning and began reading and revising. It wasn’t as bad as I had first thought when I initially surrendered to my lack of willpower. What I discovered is that it’s workable, especially since I have a vision for what I want it to develop into in the coming weeks.  The manuscript will evolve into the sixth novel in... Continue Reading

At my age, I’m not one who wishes my life away, but I must admit that I’m glad  2021 is behind me. It wasn’t a particularly bad eight months of the year for me as a writer because I had two novels published — Make Room for Family on February 1 and Reunion of Familiar Strangers on September 1. I also had several successful book-signing events and the novels have had reasonably well online sales. However, since September, I’ve been at a loss for words. And that’s not good for a writer. It was my hope to get reenergized in November in the National Novel Writing Month,... Continue Reading

 I gave it a shot but I couldn’t complete the National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo, challenge in November.  I only wrote for about a week, knocking out only 5,000 or so words, before throwing up my hands and giving up. I kept thinking I would get back into it after a day or so, but those days turned into a week and the week into weeks.  And then it was over. I suppose the reason for not going full bore into the challenge, as I have done on previous occasions, is that I didn’t have anything to write (or say). I’m a pantser, and when I write, I get into a... Continue Reading

 It’s been two months since the release of my last novel, Reunion of Familiar Strangers, the fifth book in the John Ross Boomer Lit series. Now it’s time to move on after spending time promoting the book, and frankly, taking a breather from writing. For those who follow this blog, you may have noticed this is my first post since Sept. 1.   But while the creative writing was put on hold,  I’ve done some research in the interim as part of the preparation for my next novel in the series. So tomorrow (Nov. 1), I’ll take on the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge... Continue Reading