Time Slips Away

Hello Readers,

Once again a great deal of time has passed since I have been able to turn my attention to my writing. I did make some advancement on chapter 13 at my last effort, but it was not nearly as much or enough as I would have hoped. If all goes well, this afternoon will be the first real time I’ve had to spend on the book in a good while. Unfortunately, most of that time will be used on re-orienting myself with the story and the characters, and finding the place inside myself where I go to write. If only I were able to turn the author switch on more quickly, I feel that my book would have already been finished. I hope that tommorow I will make another post that will reveal a great deal more progress on my writing than has happened in the last little stretch.

 

L.D. Holtner

Back on Task At Last

Hello Friends,

After writing my last post, I found myself more frustrated than ever about my recent lack of progress on the book. I tend to be a goal oriented person, and I had planned to have long since had at least a rough draft of this manuscript completed. With this in mind, I decided to come in to the office today and take some of my weekend to devote to one of my favorite past times.

It seems like forever since I have picked up this work, and I have had to take some time to re-familiarize myself with where I left off! I decided the first thing to do was to type the last portion of the story board I had completed in on the computer. I felt that would refresh my memory some what, and it needed to be done sinc I only had the hand written copy I had prepared the day I did the actual task.

After that was complete, I still felt that I wasn’t “back in the right frame of mind” to begin writing. So, I decided that if I couldn’t write new material I could at least edit some of the old. I pulled out the latest copy of the first ten chapters that I had run off, and started reading the story from Chapter One. As I started reading, I was glad that I had taken some time away from the book.

I found several errors that I had over looked, and was able to tighten up several things in the story that I had missed in my last couple of edits. In my zeal to make progress I had over looked some simple things that just hurt the read ability of the story.

So what have I accomplished today???? I fixed a few problems, but most importantly I have re-oriented myself with the story and the characters, and am now back in the correct mind set to press on with my writing. Expect new progress and in the days to come. I am also working with a friend to do a website and may do a teaser chapter on there, so you can check out the book as well.

I’ll be writing more soon,

L.D. Holtner

Sorry for the Long Dry Spell

Dear Readers,

I have failed to post here on the bolg for the last little while. First and foremost, I have made no new progress on Dead Reckoning since finishing the story board. Secondly, my time has been swallowed up by my “real job”. It appears that I will be working at my office again this weekend, trying to finish up a project that has to be done by next week.

So far, this has been the greatest frustration that I have had as a writer. I want to get back to my book and long to see it finished. However, as I glare into my schedule for the upcoming days and weeks, I believe that I will once again be able to turn my attention back to my writing. I suppose that this may be one of the most amazing and difficult challenges for aspiring writers….Finding the actual time to sit down and devote ones self to the work.

All starting writers I assume must devote themselves to some other profession in order to pay bills, have a roof over their head and eat food. The thing that keeps me on track, is that I always write down every idea I have about the story as soon as I have it. Obviously I have sat down at specified times and tried to contemplate how the story should go, however I have found that some of the best ideas strike me at inopportune times. Hence I simply write  them down, preserving them for my use later. It sounds a bit like the Handy Dandy Notebook routine in the Blues Clues cartoon, but I have found it very useful for me!

Hopefully more book progress to come in the next few days!!!! Good look to all you writers out there!!!1

L.D. Holtner