At 10:41am ET the envelope containing the Neutral Zone manuscript, cover letter, plot summary and self-addressed stamped envelope for the return notification went into the postal system. Next stop: Random House for the Twenty-Sixth Annual Delacorte Press Contents for a First Young Adult Novel. Yes, I made the entry deadline! (Yes, on the left is [...]
31Dec08
“Neutral Zone”: Judgement Day
November 30 marked the two year birthday of Neutral Zone. It was on that day that I finished the first draft of the novel as part of the 2006 National Novel Writing Month. In July of this year, the third draft came to a close as I’d finally written the story I wanted to tell. [...]
I opted out of NaNoWriMo this year so I could focus on my 2006 NaNo project, Neutral Zone, along with a short story that’s due this week. The short story is for Nerdvana, an anthology that hits stores in Fall 2009. The collection focuses on nerds and geeks. To quote part of the call for [...]
11Jul08
200 Pages, 107,000 Words
I started working on Neutral Zone in November 2006 for National Novel Writing Month. During that month I churned out a bit more than 50,000 words and had the foundation for the story. During 2007 I consistently wrote a couple mornings a week and by the time 2008 started I was on to draft number [...]
I officially signed up this morning to do the National Novel Writing Month challenge for this year. So, during the month of November, I’m going to churn out a 50,000 word (minimum) novel. Last year I succeeded and created the first draft of Neutral Zone, a story about two high school hockey players who fall [...]
29Nov06
NaNoWriMo: GOAL!
It is a momentous morning, I just crossed the 50,000 word mark, 50,072 to be exact. I wrote a little overtime this morning because when I hit 7am, which is when I usually finish, I was sitting around 49,300 and I was so close that I just kept writing for a few more minutes. So, [...]
23Nov06
NaNoWriMo Heads into Week 4
Well, the hockey players in love have been accidentally outed to their teammates during the last week of writing, and there is family strife for one of them to as their older brother also found out that he has a gay sibling. I’m a little under 1,000 words away from crossing the 40,000 word mark [...]
15Nov06
NaNoWriMo: Crossing 25,000
Well here it is, the middle of the month and at approximately 6:20 this morning, I crossed the 25,000 word mark–half way to the 50,000 word goal for National Novel Writing Month. This 25,000 words translates to 40.5 single spaced pages in MS Word. I’m quite happy that I have managed to stay on pace [...]
4Nov06
NaNoWriMo 2006
Will and I decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month, a yearly event in which the goal is to produce a 50,000 word (or more) novel during the month of November. I’m taking a couple hours before going to work in the morning to work on the novel, with a daily word goal of [...]
