Category: Progress

• A Tale of Two Shadow Orgs

  I’m busily cranking out words for “Tasting Ash” but there have been a few moments during the writing of the new book that have left me feeling a bit adrift because this novel is going to be a very different animal from everything that’s come before. Up till now Ash has been, a protected Company…

  Y. K. Greene

  August 27, 2015

  Books, Eldritch Elysium, Progress, Tasting Ash, Telling the tale

  blah blah, blather, Eldritch Elysium, Tasting Ash

• A Vital Reminder

  This last year has been a not so great time for me. I’ve spent a lot of time focusing on family (often at the expense of my writing) while my family minimizes my written work and suggests with full candor that I would be better off doing literally anything else. I might be a stone…

  Y. K. Greene

  July 23, 2015

  Backend, Formatting, Goals, Living the Writing Life, Progress, Scrivener, When Not To Pay, Writing

  blah blah, blathering bs, Delays, ebook, Editing, editing tips, Formatting, indie author, musings, Revision, When Not To Pay, writing, writing tips

• “There’s No Such Thing As Magic”

  Hamartia by Junedays on DeviantArt Here I am, deep into book three of the Eldritch Elysium series, “Tasting Ash,” and I’m already coming up against the great thorny caltrop I laid down to wreck myself in “Toxic Ash.” I knew damn well that in a story dotted with shape shifting boyfriends and their poisonously beautiful…

  Y. K. Greene

  July 21, 2015

  Books, Eldritch Elysium, Living the Writing Life, Progress, Tasting Ash, Writing

  blah blah, blather, ebook, Eldritch Elysium, indie author, musings, random, Tasting Ash, writing

• Been Awhile

  I know, I’ve been dang nigh nonexistent in the blog for–a very, very, long time. I decided to put my all into finishing the outline for the new book, “Tasting Ash,” which is finally done. I’m neck deep in writing the novel now and already turning my eyes to the outline of the next book…

  Y. K. Greene

  June 23, 2015

  Backend, Books, Eldritch Elysium, Living the Writing Life, Progress, Tasting Ash

  backend bs, blather, Delays, ebook, Eldritch Elysium, Tasting Ash, writing

• Two Steps Forward and Three Back

  So my monitor died some time ago and I didn’t realize how much of a ginormous hit that was to my productivity until I got it replaced and immediately felt like a weight was lifted from my writing that I’d never even dared contemplate was there before. Which should mean that I’m cranking out chapters…

  Y. K. Greene

  April 8, 2015

  Backend, Books, Eldritch Elysium, Living the Writing Life, Progress

  blah blah, blather, Delays, editing tips, Eldritch Elysium, indie author, musings, update, writing

• So… I’m Still Here

  My birthday has come, passed, and for the first time in five years it’s done so without the release of a new novel or even the paperback release of an old novel. The world didn’t collapse in a sea of angst and fire, in fact the day was quite nice. Warm and quite, with a…

  Y. K. Greene

  January 27, 2015

  Backend, Living the Writing Life, Progress, Writing

  blah blah, blather, Delays, indie author, writing

• Happy New Year!

  It’s 2015 already so I suppose you guys deserve an update. Laptop has been repaired, my work on “Tasting Ash” has finally resumed (slowly with many false starts and general malaise) and I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to release the novel sometime this year. My main workhorse computer is still down for the current…

  Y. K. Greene

  January 6, 2015

  Backend, Eldritch Elysium, Living the Writing Life, Progress

  backend bs, blah blah, blather, blathering bs, Delays, Eldritch Elysium, update, writing

• More Delays

  So it’s well past due that I gave an update but I’m afraid it’s all bad news. My work machine’s monitor is dead, so I can’t use it to work on the novel at all. My laptop which I usually use for editing, revisions, marketing and backup, is having harddrive failure punctuated by rolling BSOD’s…

  Y. K. Greene

  November 25, 2014

  Backend, Books, Living the Writing Life, Progress

  backend bs, Delays

• I’m Back?

  Bit nervous to actually say that I’m back to writing and Mom is doing well, seems like every time I do that she ends up right back in the hospital and I face a writing block to end all writing blocks. Hopefully this time she really is doing better but I am experiencing the hell…

  Y. K. Greene

  August 26, 2014

  Progress

  Eldritch Elysium, indie author, update, writing

• That Other Thing I Do

  When I’m not working on my latest novel I’m a full time, live in, caregiver for my mother who broke her back (literally) as a nurse for the state of Georgia five years ago. Most of the time it doesn’t interfere with my work so I’ve managed to get by without mentioning it. Unfortunately last…

  Y. K. Greene

  June 7, 2014

  Progress

  Heart Problems, Hospital, Mother