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For some time now I’ve flirted with the idea of recording a summary of each day’s novel-writing session. I think I’ll give it a go. This means I will use Screencast-O-Matic’s tools to record my actions within Scrivener, my writing software of choice. My idea portends a long journey.

My goals are three-fold. The first is to create a journal of sorts that attempts to capture the pains and pleasures I encounter along the way. The second is to inspire, motivate, and encourage others who want to write a novel but simply do not know where to start. The third is to share some idea, insight, technique, or method with the beginning novelist (those who’ve decided to take the plunge) that teaches something practical and helpful about the fiction writing craft, thereby improving the odds their first novel becomes a reality.

I realize my writing process may be of no interest to anyone, nor may it be helpful even if interesting. The truth is, every writer is different and has to develop his or her own process of getting words on the page. But hopefully, one thing will become evident no matter the writer or the chosen process: writing a novel is time-consuming, tedious, confusing, and frustrating. In sum, it’s a difficult job, a downright messy business.

This is your formal invitation to join the party, and hopefully to begin writing your own novel.

I apologize for being late in posting this thank-you. I’m honored you included my book, The Boaz Stranger, in your summer catalogue.

For fiction readers and writers:

For a special treat, see what fiction writing expert H.R. D’Costa has for you in The Scribe Meets World Summer-Entertainment Catalogue.

While you are at HRD’s site, I encourage you to check out her awesome writing guides. Her fiction writing advice is absolutely brilliant.

To read my private blog, Read to Death, click here and request access.

The blog’s goal is share how reading leads a person to discover & dispel false opinions & beliefs, and to replace them with the truth.

This is a membership blog where I share my reading on a number of topics, including politics (sparingly), religion, and science.

The main question Read to Death attempts to answer is whether there is sufficient, credible evidence the Christian God exists. For the first sixty years of my life I would have answered with a definitive yes. Now, some eight years later, my response is the opposite, a definitive no.

However, I remain willing to change my mind when presented with sufficient, credible evidence. This is why reading, researching, relating, and recording is vital when one’s guiding star is following the evidence whereever it leads.