by Michael La Ronn | Jan 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today is the first day where I didn’t have to sit down and grind. Cool! I officially started post-production of the novel. This will be a long post, but I’m getting my thoughts down as they may be useful to some of you. LOOPING The first order of business is to loop...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
2463 words done today, and the novel is now DONE! Wow, what a ride. I started writing on December 19, so it took me about 30 days. If you take out the bad week I had, the actual number of writing days was around 21 or so. Not bad for a 60K novel written over the...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
1956 words today. Good news and bad news. Good news is that I finished the final battle! Bad news is that I’m still not done (!!) This is officially the longest (first novel) I’ve ever written. I’m shocked that this thing is almost at 60K. I’m usually a 40K-50K guy....
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
2470 words today. It wasn’t because I wasn’t trying, though!!! I still have a pretty decent daily word count—better than yesterday. It’s just that this final battle is turning out to be the longest final battle I’ve ever written. Just when I think it’s over, there’s...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
(If you have ever worked with lab rats or wild rats, see the bottom of this post for a request for help.) 2243 words today. Still not done! This novel is just deciding to take its time on its slow unwind to the end. I’ve never had a novel do this, honestly. The final...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
716 words today. I don’t really have any excuses. I wrote myself into a corner and spent a lot of today burning calories to fix it. Also had to do some additional research to get a few facts right. Still writing the final battle… I’m not done writing for the night so...
