Scott D. Parker: Writer

Well, it’s done. I finished the first draft of the new Gordon Gardner book (#2) mid-morning. The spreadsheet reads 79,032 words while Word c...

If the writing I did today proves to be what I think it is, today is the penultimate day in writing the second Gordon Gardner investigation....

Not a long post tonight. Just moved ever closer to the end…and the end for a particular character. Didn’t see that coming, but it seems appr...

The good thing about this book extending past November is that my 2015 writing streak—I’ve written every day this year!—is easy to maintain....

Yeah, yeah. I got to the end of November, clocked in 70,000 words, but didn’t finish. So I’m still plowing forward. Had an oddly difficult d...

Well, I give myself a pass and a fail. I pass because I wrote more than 50,000 words. With today’s 2798 words, I have reached 70,038 words f...

I made really good progress today albeit way slower than I wanted. Like yesterday, I had to slog through a couple of scenes to get to my big...

Yes, I surpassed the daily minimum. I’m on track to have written more the 1667 words every day this month. But I hit a bit of a road block t...

Nothing major. Moved the bar forward. Had a scene I didn’t prepare for, but I finished it. And I wrote a fun chapter that uses a cinematic t...

I got almost 2/3s of the writing done at 6am this morning before the festivities and the cooking and the preparation for the big feast start...

I managed another 3,000+ word day. Not bad. I’m at the final part of the story so things are picking up some good speed. What surprised me, ...

Today was an interesting day. I reached 50,000 words yesterday, so the drive to 50K has been accomplished. In the early part of my writing d...

After another day of solidifying the ending of the story, I managed 2743 words of new fiction. With that number, I have reached 50,000 words...

It was an interesting day. I gave a talk at my church today. Thoroughly enjoyed it, but I spent the morning mentally preparing and reviewing...

You’d think a Saturday would be a day in which the word count would just soar. Normally, you’d be correct. But this wasn’t a normal Saturday...

A day off from the day job, the first of ten days off for Thanksgiving. I expect to make some serious headway on the book in this time span....

I did a thing I haven’t done with this book before: Go back and change something I had already written. My standard writing process is that ...

Interesting day today. My morning writing session was consumed by middle-of-the-book brainstorming. That is, I got to a point where I needed...

Two things combined to lessen my word count today. The first was various meetings at the day job. It knocked me out of my regular breaks whi...

After my personal best day yesterday, I’m down to a more reasonable 2,177 words today. I got slowed because I needed to rethink a few thing...