by Chris | Aug 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of the strategies I employed while revising You Are Here was to read the entire book aloud to myself. (I didn’t do this for The Love Thing, and I regret it.) If anything sounded unnatural to my ears, I rewrote it — or, more often, I took the...
by Chris | Aug 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
While I wait to hear from the publisher about my own book, I now have time to give a shout-out to my friend and fellow indie author Eileen Granfors, whose novel, Sydney’s Story, has been published in paperback this past week. Over twenty years in the making,...
by Chris | May 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last Friday I went to my neighbor Clive Matson’s house for his monthly Poetry Saloon. (I’ve written about Clive before; he’s a poet and creative writing teacher whose website is here.) In past months I’d gone with samples from “You Are Here” to try out on...
by Chris | May 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
In the end, there wasn’t much suspense: the 100th day of my 100-day novel writing challenge came and went on April 25, even though I managed to finish the project on April 15 — on day 90. I want to thank all of you for your support and encouragement. ...
by Chris | Apr 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s a holy mess and I don’t remember half of what I’ve written. But it’s a 102,000 words long, it has characters I love, and most of all, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. I am very happy to announce I just finished my novel draft....
