I just finished writing Part III of the Shady Palms novel. For the time being I am calling it “Larva”. Originally I had called it “Infestation”, but I have decided to use that title for Part IV. In the end I have no idea really how the book will be divided into Chapters and Parts. [...]
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Shady Palms – Half Way There – 1st Draft
When I first started working on the manuscript for Shady Palms, I created my cover sheet which lists my name, contact information, the title of the work, the genre and approximate word count. As a goal for myself I typed “Goal: 70,000 Words” in light grey beneath the word count. One of the cool things [...]
Shady Palms – 100 Pages
I’m writing a quick update for anybody who checks out this blog regularly. If I don’t post something here every few months I feel I’m cheating the die-hard fans out there who occasionally send me email as they patiently await for the sequel to Slaughter Disc. While I have routinely learned to never say never, [...]
Shady Palms – Part Two – 1st Draft
I have crossed another mile stone while penning this first draft of Shady Palms. I am happy to say that I have completed the second part of the book and added another 12,000 words to the manuscript! Tentatively Part Two of the Story is entitled “Furlough” as it deals with a new main character and [...]
Shady Palms – Part One – 1st Draft
I am happy to say I have complete the first draft of the first part of the novel, after several weeks of due diligence. After much deliberation I decided to break the story into three parts. This was mainly because the characters from the beginning of the story have nothing to really do with the characters [...]
Vacancy at the Shady Palms
It’s been a long while since I posted anything about the story. For the most part I have been very busy working at my regular job and I am lucky if I get a day or evening once a week to work on the story. It’s funny because a few people at work know I [...]
Welcome to the Shady Palms
It’s been a long time, but I have been busy writing as I have promised. I have basically completed the first serious version of the script for Redress. I have shelved it for a while as there are some rough spots that need smoothing and I want to take a fresh whack at it after [...]
Redress – Almost done in time for the Holidays!
I just wanted to let the few people who actually read this stuff know that I have finally finished the long, painful edit of my script for Redress. The editing was long and painful simply because I have had a lot of personal stuff to deal with over the past few months and it has [...]
Redress – This Rewrite is Done!
Whew. I literally finished this rewrite of Redress a few minutes ago, but I am so stoked about it, I had to keep writing…which brings me to this. As of this moment, the script is at 134 pages; the single largest screenplay I have ever completed. I know there are some “pros” out there that can [...]
Redress – Script News – 100 Pages, Finally
It has taken a while, but the screenplay for Redress finally crept across the 100 page mark last night. My target length for the script is about 130 pages for this draft and then I plan to go back and trim the fat back to about 115 pages. For those of you following me on Twitter [...]
