Author Archives: L. Jacob

Podcast…drop!

Posted on April 30, 2017 by L. Jacob

Today is the day I’m hoping to get my podcast to drop on iTunes and Stitcher. Once I figure it out. It’s on my website, darkmysticquill.com. Or it will be as soon as it goes live. It’s only five minutes … Continue reading →

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Editing. Check.

Posted on April 22, 2017 by L. Jacob

I just sent off Grimaulkin back to the editor, a day earlier than I promised. What’s next on the list of things to do? Podcast. Dark Mystic Quill’s website will be up and running on the 30th. I just have … Continue reading →

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Podcasting, editing, and revising, oh my

Posted on April 9, 2017 by L. Jacob

I so far have laid down five minutes of my podcast. It’s about “Writing, Witchcraft and Woe, but not necessarily in that order.” I have music that I bought to use for the beginning tracks. I went and bought a … Continue reading →

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Revision

Posted on March 26, 2017 by L. Jacob

A few years back, I plunked down a goodly amount of money for an online course on how to revise your novel. It’s by Holly Lisle (someone I never heard of, and someone whose books I’ve never read). It was … Continue reading →

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Writing Environment

Posted on March 19, 2017 by L. Jacob

Grim is at the editor’s. A few common errors were found in the sample that was sent to me, things that are common for pantsers, like description before the subject instead of after, and use of flat words instead of … Continue reading →

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What is a novel?

Posted on March 12, 2017 by L. Jacob

So! Grimaulkin 2 is going along smashingly. 15K words so far with an average of 1000 words a day, except weekends which I can top 2K words a day. I got my first one-star review from Homecoming. Basically, he said … Continue reading →

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Decisions, decisions

Posted on March 5, 2017 by L. Jacob

So, at present, Water and Grimaulkin are at the editor’s. Grimaulkin Tempted is up to 10K words already and I’m in need of another subplot. So far I have: Main plot: Scott’s ex comes back. Subplot A: Becky, his cousin, … Continue reading →

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Water–Finished!

Posted on February 25, 2017 by L. Jacob

I just finished Water and sent it off to the publisher: Zarra Knightley Publishing. 48K words in total. Grimaulkin is in editing. Hopefully that’ll be done by the end of March so I can have it by June and run … Continue reading →

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Scorpio

Posted on February 19, 2017 by L. Jacob

So I was struggling with Scorpio. No offense, but I’ve never had good luck with Scorpios, either as friends or in a relationship. The story I first wrote was the “origin” story. It wasn’t that great, and it was way … Continue reading →

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Work vs. Play

Posted on February 12, 2017 by L. Jacob

35K words. That’s all Water has. I need more sex, more story in Scorpio. That’s what I’ll work on this week. I just finished Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. This is the second book I read that believes that creativity … Continue reading →

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