Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Summer Writing 6

    Last week, I made good progress with my writing. I added about 12,000 new words to Wulfe and Christina’s story, The Crusader’s Heart, but this word count is deceptive. I was at the ugly bit, which happens with each book, when I have to scrub through everything I’ve written so far and ensure it’s consistent.…

  • Summer Writing 5

    I’m past the halfway mark on this seven week sprint and have written almost 50,000 new words on my various works-in-progress. (It’s actually 48,000 words.) I wrote 12,000 words on Project 2 (The Crusader’s Heart) this past week, because Wulfe and Christina wrestled me for every one of them. This is a typical working pattern…

  • “Anger is a Map”

    A few weeks ago, I posted a blog about things I miss from traditional publishing. My intent was to learn from the past: since I’m my own publisher now (and will be for the foreseeable future) I wanted to identify processes and strategies that worked for me in the past, so I could find ways…

  • Summer Writing 4

    I had a pretty awesome week, although it doesn’t show up in the word count. Only 10,000 new words, but I was researching. I LOVE this part of the process of writing a book and totally dug in this past week. It’s a predictable development and happened right on time – after the first flush…

  • Summer Writing 3

    Well, I didn’t have a very good writing week. In fact, I didn’t manage to do any writing at all. 😦 That’s because instead of being writer-me, I had to be publisher-me. What did I accomplish? • The Crusader’s Bride was released. Yay! An on sale date means a bunch of promo jobs, from updating…