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Showing posts with label first drafts. Show all posts

Showing posts with label first drafts. Show all posts

Thursday, September 12, 2024

It's a Miracle

Donis here. I've just started a three month gig as Writer in Residence at the Glendale, AZ, Public Library, and the work on my latest m...

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Putting All My Ducks in a Row

Donis here. I’ve already reached a point in the first draft of my new manuscript where I have begun to rewrite. After I finish first draft...

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

The tangled string

Oh how I wish I had been at Bouchercon! Reading about everyone's experiences, both in this blog and on Facebook, has made me realize ho...

Thursday, October 27, 2022

The Eighth First Draft

I have just begun the preliminary research and planning stages for my next novel (number 14), and soon I'll be in that apply-glue-to-rea...

Thursday, December 09, 2021

Critique Group!

I have finally joined a critique group. I have been writing for untold years and I have never been in a critique group before. The major re...

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

The cherry on top

Last week I hit a milestone in my current work in progress. After about ten pads of foolscap scribbling, I wrote ... This has been an extr...

Friday, November 19, 2021

The Sacred Process

I almost misspelled the title of this blog, making it "The Scared Process" rather than "The Sacred Process." Actually, ...

Friday, July 30, 2021

Out of Season

I have this silly morning glory plant that thinks it's a perennial. It's not. It's an annual. It thinks it's purple, too, ...

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

In search of a name

It's two weeks since I wrote my post 'Ready, set go!' about putting my pen to paper and getting started on the first draft of m...

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

From zero to sixty and back again

AKA the ebb and flow of a writer's life. There is a schedule in the lives of writers. For me, it is this. I have about a year to fiftee...

Thursday, May 03, 2018

Beginning a New Series

Tempe Public Library I, Donis, started my Writer in Residence program on May 1 at the Public Library here in my hometown of Tempe, Ari...

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Keeping Up With the Times

I’ve started a new novel and am slogging along in the jungles of the first draft. When I’m trying to get a first draft to look like s...

Thursday, April 05, 2018

Finalist

This coming weekend I will learn if my 2017 novel, The Return of the Raven Mocker, has won this year’s Oklahoma Book Award. I was notifie...

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Summertime. And the Living Ain't Easy.

109.2 °F My latest manuscript is in the hands of my editor. It will more than likely be after the Independence Day holiday before I h...

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