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I have been steadily moving the characters along the road to competition. Except for one minor incident, they have been progressing as expected. As I have told you in previous entries, I don’t always have total control over the characters in the book. The main character took his future wife out on a horse ride and ended up having sex with her in a field, under a tree. I must have been half asleep because I sure didn’t see that coming. He did go to her father and ask for her hand that evening, but ...

I have given you a few weeks of rest from my updates since I know you are getting bored from reading the same thing every time. I have also been working on a small project to feed my already over inflated ego. First the update and then the news.

I have been working hard to complete my second novel and progress is usually marked in fractions and word count. I have now reached the 1/3 completion point on this book. I see that as a milestone. So far, I have written 45,000 words ...

I have promised to keep you, my potential fans, updated on my progress as I continue to write my second novel. The question most of you are asking is, why keep on saying the same boring things if there is nothing substantial to report? My answer is that we are sharing this process together and I want to make sure no one misses any random thoughts I have during the writing. I know it seems like it is taking way too long to get to a finished product and start receiving those rejection letters, but ...

During my writing process, I write my stories in spiral bound notebooks (the kind you can buy at Wal-Mart for 9 to 15 cents when school starts). Each notebook has 70 pages and I write front and back for a total of 140 handwritten pages per notebook. With my first novel, I filled 3 of these notebooks and had to add about 20 extra pages, giving me a total of 440 pages of handwritten manuscript. After I write in my notebook, my wife will take my written pages and type them into the computer (she is ...

I can’t help but notice that views on my writing journal have been steadily going down. Maybe it’s true that all my stories are boring. I have decided to give everyone a little peek into the inner workings of my brain and explain the process I used to write my first novel.

The idea came from a single entry in a history written about the town where I grew up (that’s the town in the novel, but don’t tell anyone). It said that during the Civil War, Morgan’s raiders went through the ...