I want to share the best book I’ve read in a long time, Stephen King’s On Writing.

This is the most amazing book and it’s what you would expect from a writing book, but so much more.  I now want to go back and start reading more Stephen King books.  The first 100 pages are the most amazing part of this book.  The beginning is a cliff note version of his life story.  It’s a succinct autobiography, which is riveting.  He is an amazing man, but he gives you real advice that I wish I knew a year ago when I started my own book.

 

If you want to be a writer or if you just want to read a quick and interesting biography, this is the book for you.  I can’t recommend it any higher.

 

Lonnie

Just hit a big milestone

I’ve only written a couple of days in the last ten or so, but I did hit a big milestone in those couple of days.  I went over the 100,000 mark in word count, hooray!   The total single spaced pages are about 185 now—I think that works out to 300 pages in a standard 6×9 paperback.  The word count and pages aren’t my major concern, but I wanted to make sure once I wrote the book that I wouldn’t have to add a bunch of fluff to get it to standard book size.  I wanted to make sure that the story was king and not an artificial standard to be published. 

I’m not done with the story, but definitely at the culmination point for the first book.  Big battles will be the exclamation point of the main story line along with the twist in the last few pages that will set up the second book in the series.  I’m getting back into some semblance of a routine so I should be able to write next week for several hours each day.

Lonnie

Sorry for not posting in a while

I’m back from Bulgaria and I apologize for not being able to post in a while.  We were running internet through army satellites and the system blocked all blogs, so no posting I’m afraid.

I didn’t get as much writing as I’d hoped either.  Once I got to Bulgaria, I was made the Deputy Commander for the Task Force and I was swamped with work.  I only managed to write in spurts.  I’m at about 183 pages, but I see the ending coming up fast.  The last couple of chapters are going to be pure action so I expect the writing to go quickly from here on out.  I’m also taking this week off, so I plan to write every day for at least a couple of hours. 

Thanks for the patience and more posts to come.

Lonnie