Archive for August, 2009

Text To Speech

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I’ve recently discovered the joys of having my computer ‘read’ my novel to me. I’m finding this incredibly useful. Not only am I catching grammar errors, but I’m also catching misspellings and duplicate words (the the for example) whereas I’d usually just pass over it. I have come to the understanding that the mind sees [...]

Pushing Myself

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Okay. I do believe that I just finished writing up the rough draft to chapter for of the novel, Push the Limits. That was excruciating. I think I’ll start chapter five tomorrow and then edit and flush out the plot in the earlier chapters if I decide it needs to be done. Phew.

Two

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

One. I’m still stuck on chapter four. Due to an online community taking up a lot of my time, it’s been off to the side, but I have been thinking about to move it along and get myself un-stuck. Two. National Novel Writing Month. 50 000 in 30 days. Come November. I’m Co-ML this year. [...]