I worked on Chapter 5

I worked on Chapter 5 today and I now have 2,411 words with more to come, but I am done for the day. I also did some small edits on Chapter 4 and 3 and I'm feeling better about both of them. I know I would be better off just leaving the earlier chapters alone and writing the new ones, but I can't help myself. As I said before, every new chapter mkes me want to go back and tweak the earlier ones. Some type of Writer's disease I suppose. That's all for now.

Started Chapter 5

I started Chapter 5 today. I only have about 900 word so far but I know where the chapter's going and how I'm going to get there.  I added more  to chapter 4 and it is now 4,463  and is likely to remain pretty close to that size. . I also added a bit more Chapter 3. It seems like every time I write a new chapter. I think of something that should have gone in one of the chapters before. As I recall that's what I did when I wrote the Last Killer Standing too. . I wrote most of Order of the White Feather quite a number of years ago, so I'm not sure exactly how I managed to put that one together. 

Well, that's all for now. Another update tomorrow. Don't forget to let me know what you think about my idea of using the homepage as a book diary of the progress and making a new tab for Ram's Ramblings.  If you like the idea, let me know. And if you don't like the idea, let me know that too. It will help me decide what I should do.

Change of plans

I have decided to change the way this blog is being written. I am going to use the home page as a sort of diary of the writing of the first Ram book (which I am sort of already doing). Then I will make a new tab on which to put Ram's Ramblings. I will also change to notes at the top of the page to explain the tabs and home page a bit more.

Let me know what you think. If there are no strong objections, I will probably do it this weekend (since I will have some extra time to get it done). 

As for now, I have added a bit more to Chapter 2 and almost doubled Chapter 4 and am not quite finished with it yet. I will give you numbers later today if I get the chance.

Today, chapter 4

I  worked on chapter 4 today.  I wrote a little bit of it last night but wrote more and edited a bit today. I am up to 1,994 words  but have some more that I need to write for the chapter.  I'm feeling quite comfortable with the progress I'm making and have a pretty good idea that I'm on the right track for the flow of the book. . I really wish I could tell you more about what I'm writing,  but I, like most writers,  don't want to disclose too much for fear our ideas might be stolen. After all,  ideas are not copyrightable only the words are.

 Well,  back to work.  I'll give you an update again tomorrow.

Some additions to chapter 2 and a good start on chapter 3

Today,  I worked on chapter 3 and have 1,623  unedited words.  I'm not through with the chapter so there's going to be more. I also realized that I had left some important points out of chapter 2 so I have added to it. It is now 4,114  words long.  The additions, of course, haven't been edited so the next edit of that chapter will be for the new additions as well, as the old material.

It's now about 6:30 and I think the wife wants to watch another movie.  Both of us like disaster movies. We already watched one today, but I bought her some new ones for Christmas and that's what are watching. The one we watched earlier today wasn't too bad.  I think we're going to watch one that we've actually seen before, but as I recall it was a pretty good movie., so I guess I'll cut it short for tonight. I'll update you on my progress tomorrow. Not so much, of course, since I have to go back to my real job tomorrow. What a pity. I'd much rather just be writing and telling you about it in my (or Rams) blog.

The first pass at Chapter 2 is finished.

Well, I finished the first pass at  chapter 2.  It is 3092 words. Of course I haven't edited it  yet so that word count may shrink or even grow larger.

I am ready to start on Chapter 3, but probably won't do it tonight , rather I'll get an early start in the morning since I have Monday off because of New Year's.

Well, got to go. The wife is calling to come and watch a movie.  That's no doubt what I'll be doing this evening.

Poker yesterday so only a few pages

I played poker yesterday (Saturday, New Years Eve) and I was 6th out of 20. Not bad, I guess. Unfortunately, my poker playing meant that I didn't get much writing done. I usually get up by 5 or 6 AM since I get up at 5:00 AM every day during the week and I really can't sleep in on the weekends. Thus, I just get up to write so I generally get some work done before my wife gets up since she does sleep in on the weekend (she gets up every day during the week to make my breakfast - her choice).

I did manage to get a couple pages done yesterday so I have about 5 pages for Chapter 2 now. Right now there are 1259 words (by the count the Word gives me). Chapter 1 currently has 1641 words.

If I get the chance I'll update you as to my progress today.Because of the new year, I have tomorrow off as well so I will get some additional writing done. I do have a couple of projects pending int my workshop as well, so I may work out there some today and tomorrow. I do some wood working to break up the mononity of just writng. That's why I play poker too (though I just really like to play poker and since it's free to play...)

By the way, I'm going to lower the price of my two books on Smashwords to zero and, hopefuly, Amazon will follow with the price change soon (you can't price at zero on Amazon). I am doing it to, hopefully, get some readership with the hopes of gaining an audience for subsiquent books. Also, I just want somebody to read my books (it's a pride thing). I just wish someone would review them either on Smashwords or Amazon so I would get some feedback.

Smashwords:
Last Killer Standing
Order to the White Feather: The Sword of Dalaamar

Amazon
Last Killer Standing
Order to the White Feather: The Sword of Dalaamar