Tag: writing
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First Draft Complete!
I am finished! Done! Complete! At least the first draft. Yesterday I finally finished the first draft for the full novel for Of Earth and Ice, my sci-fi dystopia where humanity has moved underground to protect themselves from a planet that has frozen over. At 171,118 words, it took a LOT of effort to finish.…
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Random Thoughts on Writing My Next Book
I am closing in on the completion of the 1st draft of my next novel. Actually, it’s my finally completing what I had started when I pompously decided to put out Part 1: Loss of Limb… Wait, I didn’t even give you the name of the novel really. My mistake. I should preface these things…
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The Streak is Over
It happened. I missed a day of writing. After 122 days in a row since reigniting a daily writing goal, I had a day where I wasn’t able to write. I’ve been predicting that I’d get a day like I had yesterday. A day where I wasn’t able to get even a moment to write.…
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100 Days and Counting
Three days ago, I hit another milestone. I have written over 1000 words a day for 100 days in a row. More specifically, I’ve written 1000 words a day of fiction each day. Yay me! (Now it’s 103, but who’s counting? Oh… me.) Of course (and I will go into this again when I finally…
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Getting Close
I am getting close. I’ve eclipsed 140,000 words on my project Of Earth and Ice. I am looking at finishing the first draft somewhere in the neighborhood of 150,000 words. So I am close. Very close. What’s got me now is the looming point of starting another project. This used to be such an easy…
Jeremy C Kester 