Perfect Coven Series

Tonight’s meeting was just Mickie and James. Mickie is working on a short story called “Potential” and that was her project for our writing session tonight. She got a couple of hundred words added to the story. James spent the meeting doing audio-editing of his novel HAND OF THE WITCH. It’s a great way to find typos or incorrect word usage. He is now on Chapter 10, and the edit is going pretty…

I am a writer. I love words. I love wordplay. And that, not unexpectedly, means I love puns. Oh, how I love puns. So…here are some puns. Enjoy. Or not. My name is James Lock. I had an identical twin. So…technically…I’m a combination Lock. ============================================================ I have a collection of fighting jokes. I call them…

It was a small meeting tonight, only Mickie and James. Sid seems to think being out of town and busy with other things is an acceptable excuse for missing writers group. James is doing an audio-edit on this novel HAND OF THE WITCH and spent tonight’s meeting listening to an AI read out his story. Not only did he find one serious miswording error, but he has come to the firm belief that the…

This week’s meeting was a double business/discussion meeting, combining the agendas for the May meeting – which we didn’t have – and the June meeting – which needed to be moved forward. There were a few items concerning the structure and functioning of Graeae Publishing. We discussed those and put a couple on the agenda for a future meeting. Then we got to the part of the meeting that is…

I’m still on a partial hiatus and I’m still partially blocked. Not the best news. It seems, at this point, that I’m having issues with Perfect Coven writing. The new universe, well, during Der Mann’s D & D retreat, I wrote nearly 4,000 words on a book for that universe. But then I start thinking about Perfect Coven and I just…freeze. Mind goes blank. And I feel paralyzed. So. I have a problem…

Mickie and James met tonight. They each had projects to work on, so a thirty-minute writing sprint was the event of the day. Mickie worked on getting her “says” to Sid for the new blog post. James set aside his primary projects to work on one of his back burner stories. In addition to her “says” for Sid, Mickie went over some character development materials James had sent earlier in relation to…

Today’s meeting was just Mickie and James, and they each had projects to work on. Mickie worked on a short story she’s been dealing with. James worked more on character creation for supporting characters in the third “Gentleman Farmer Investigations” novel. James managed to finish creating the characters in a group that is going to be important in the next three books of his series. Mickie…

Sid and James ended up having an off-the-cuff meeting after all. It was nothing structured, just bouncing some working ideas and rounding out some things we had talked about earlier. Some good story ideas were bandied about, including a secondary series James is considering, spinning off from his “Gentleman Farmer Investigations” cozy mysteries. There was also an excellent discussion about the…

Due to personal matters, tonight’s meeting was canceled. Oh well…things happen. We’ll be back next week.

It was a short meeting tonight, but a productive one. Mickie worked on her blog post for April. Yes, it’s going to be late, but give her a break…she had the flu! She got a good bit of work done on the post and will soon have it ready to be published. James worked on some character creation. He has started work on the third book in his “Gentleman Farmer Investigations” series and needs to flesh…

This meeting was a bit out of the ordinary. First, we dealt with technical issues because Google Meet was having a psychotic break. For one thing, when James tried to enter the meeting, Google told him that he had to wait for the meeting host to admit him. That would be fine…except for the fact that James WAS THE HOST! Eventually, things got straightened out and work began. We did some special…

We met a bit late, because Sid put some odd importance on having dinner with her husband. Weird priorities some people have! We complained about life, health, and work. Then we sat down to write. Except for the fact that we didn’t do any actual compilation of words. We did, however, discuss a lot of ideas…for both works in progress and new stories we are putting together. And…that appears to…

Meeting happened. Complaining about work was done. Writing occurred. Mickie is working on her blog post for this month. She got a couple more paragraphs done on the blog and is nearing completion. James is almost done editing HOMEGROWN MURDER and tonight’s work made him aware of a problem he had not noticed previously. Fortunately, that’s what editing is for. The problem has now been…

This was our monthly business and discussion meeting. We had a fairly hefty agenda today, so there was a lot to talk about. We started the meeting, as we usually do, by talking about the various things going on in our lives. For all that we are writers, we are also people and friends, so the social part of the group is important. The majority of the meeting was spent dealing with business…

We met. We complained about life. We wrote. Mickie did about 300 words on her current short story. She now thinks it will end up being around ten pages long. James smoothed out one of the final clue-giving scenes in HOMEGROWN MURDER. And that appears to be about it for this week. Next week is our monthly idea/business/discussion meeting, so there should be more to say then.

I thought I would like to post a list of books that I have enjoyed and/or that have meant a lot to me. To be honest, I am using the word “books” rather loosely; it might be one book or it might be an entire series. If you have read any of these books/series, please speak up. I would love to hear from anyone who knows these books. I would also love to hear anyone else’s important books. #1 – The…

We had a pretty short but productive meeting. Mickie and James each spent a few minutes discussing the things that are stressing them out right now. Sadly, like most people at present…that’s a lot. And then the writing began. Mickie worked on her “says” to send to James for the March blog post. She finished them and sent them on to James to be added to the blog. James has a scene in HOMEGROWN…