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My goal for this week (October 21) and possibly the following week is to complete a final edit of Five Cats and Five Movements . This novel is another that has been a long time coming. It was first drafted in 2017 in my spare time, pretty much as an exercise in improvisation and stream of consciousness writing. It was written primarily by "pantsing," i.e., writing by the seat of my pants with very little plotting beforehand. Consequently, each chapter was as much of an advent

Personal Writing Achievements I'm making some final edits on the novel I hope to publish next month - Five Cats and Five Movements. A fair amount of ambivalence was involved in regard to whether I'm nitpicking the novel or making noticeable improvements. I decided to go through it one more time and suffice with the results (hopefully). I also completed Chapter 10 in the first draft of another yet untitled novel. The story involves an alcoholic Ethiopian's struggle to prevent

Since this is my first ever blog post, it seemed fitting to write about my first published novel. The Last Shadow was about five years in...