… that’s how long the first revised draft of Four Shards of Heaven is in manuscript. 108,819 words. I finished going over it this evening, cleaning up the inserts I made and catching a few errors here and there. I also did a search for a few phrases that I …
Our Sony Vaio laptop imploded in Colorado, and I’ve spent the past couple of weeks taking it apart and putting it back together again in an effort to repair what’s turned out to be a hard drive problem. Alas, ’tis still dead. In their extraordinary vision, Sony included the “Windows …
I spent the last hour upgrading WordPress to 2.6.1. It seems to have worked like a charm, though I continue to be frustrated by the fact that one must manually do so much work to backup the databases, download files, copy only certain ones while modifying others but not touching …
I took a few days off from actually writing anything related to Four Shards after I finished it up last week. Things were percolating in my mind, though, and today I set about doing some revisions to the first few chapters. Though revisions are tremendously tough to do for me, …
Our long vacation has come to an end. Around 7:30pm local time, we pulled into the campus of the Citadel, where cadets were already in presence. Back to reality, it seems. On the plus side, the three days of driving it took to get from Denver to here went as …