Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Another week passes. This time next week I hope to have released the new hardback version of The Thief and The Demon. I will share here the new cover when I receive it. I have been working on getting set up to do the narration of my books. …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I managed not to go see Alien: Romulus a third time this weekend. I did look at the times though. It was still in an Imax near me, I was tempted. I am a massive fan of The Crow. Saw the 1994 movie four times at the cinema. …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! And here we all are, rushing toward a day that passes all too quickly, months of anticipation dissipating in a confetti of bright shards, leaving us bloated and queasy. I love Christmas, by the way, though it was an eternal disappointment to the child I was, never receiving …
Continue reading The Writing Life: Rushing to the next roadblock
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! What a pithy title, no? No. But it is a useful reduction of my recent activity, aside from decorating trees. I am now 64.7% of the way through the text of this ‘final’ editing pass. 67.8% by a different criterion. No graphic representation, as is my wont. I …
Continue reading Percentages return with find and replace minus one as their companion
So I went through and edited chapters 28-33 this weekend, re-jigged the ending a bit, got it closer to final. It would do now, but no doubt could be improved. I went back and forth through the last three chapters looking for places to possibly insert a line or two, and ended up not doing …
Hello friends and the occasional relative! This has been a disjointed weekend, and as expected, I only managed one chapter, that looked easier on paper than the last couple, but turned out to have a lot of challenges. The surprises of writing. Three chapters to go! So I am now 90.9% of the way to …
Continue reading Seven weeks in a row: truncated activity and a difficult finish line
Hello, friends and the occasional relative! Six weeks in a row. The streak will be busted sooner or later, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts. This has been a good weekend. I wrote not one, not two, but three chapters! 87.87% of the way through this edited-as-I-go draft. Still no progress bar. I am …
Continue reading Weekly update: knowing you don’t have perspective, and being okay with it
Hello friends and the occasional relative! (FatoR™, for future reference.) Yes, I know, this is crazy, how many weeks in a row has it been now? Five? Motivation, deadlines, and the very act of doing this update and not wanting to miss my weekly target is keeping me gloriously focused. I am aware this could …
Hello, my friends and occasional relative! Yes, that is still the title. It remains the pithiest that fits within the format I set myself with The Thief and The Demon. I can’t lie—I will enjoy writing books without The X and The Y as a title convention! But hey, I am feeling mostly better, and …
Hello friends and the occasional relative. Unbelievably, I am sick again. Kicked in yesterday, and now I have a hot head full of cotton wool, where thoughts sluggishly drift and dissipate. It is a huge pain in my backside, but for today, medicated up to my eyeballs to manage symptoms as best I can, I …
Roderick T. Macdonald 