If you haven’t seen Snow White and the Huntsman yet, and you’re into fantasy, put down whatever device you’re reading this on, and scoot on out right now to find a showing. I saw it over the weekend, and I’m still thinking about it. This movie is full of wonder. The portrayals of the Dark […]
Author Archives: J.R. Pearse Nelson
Sunday Update: The Editing Life
Hi again, fellow writers and readers. This will be a short update, as we have a busy day full of family events. Editing is a funny game. Let’s be real. How much do I have to say? Not much. 🙂 A few weeks ago I pulled a whole section out of the novel I’m editing. […]
Mid-Week Update: Exciting Progress!
Part One of Queen Witch is done! It’s so hard to measure progress in revision, so I’m looking both at changes in total word count, and where I am in the manuscript. I’m at 11,200 words of cleaned up and revised manuscript. Yippee! That’s 2,900 words further along than Sunday’s count. However, my total word count […]
Sunday Update: Solid Start to Queen Witch
The first 8,300 words of Queen Witch are revised and edited. I could almost hear these pages squeak, they were so clean. I’d been worried about the start of the novel — beginnings always confound me — but I think I actually did a great job here. That’s the exciting part… Now for the hard […]
The First Rose
When I saw this beauty getting ready to bloom a few days ago, I knew it was special, and just for me. My favorite rose bloomed first. Here’s a picture of that bloom now. I wish I’d caught it yesterday, but I was too busy drawing a farm with my kids, and blowing more bubbles. […]
Sunday Update: Rewriting and Adding to Queen Witch
Short update today, as I’m vacationing with the fam on the Oregon coast. Getting right into it: By Friday night, I’d finished dissecting my first draft of the fantasy novel Queen Witch. I know what needs to be added and where. I believe there are about 15,000 words to write, along with revising as I […]
Mid-Week Update: Sunny Skies and Bubble Buckets
Hello again! I hope your weather has been as nice as mine. Spring is ripe. Lilacs, my favorite spring flower, are blooming and filling the air with their lovely scent. I’ve been spending a fair amount of time in the backyard with my girls; blowing bubbles, drawing with sidewalk chalk, and playing on the play […]
Sunday Update: Sickness, Stalling and Shorts, Oh My!
I fell off the face of the blogging planet for a couple of weeks, not even posting my ROW80 updates. We had a bad cold that took about ten days to work it’s way through our household, including sick days for both my husband and me, and then the requisite catch up on life, work, […]
Eleven Random Questions
I’ve been absent for a while, but a nice opportunity arose today to jump back to my blog. Lauralynn Elliott tagged me in a little game of eleven questions. I’m going to participate in the first part, answering the questions she posed on her blog, but I’m not going to pass it along. Her questions, […]
Finally on Facebook
It took my best friend asking why I didn’t have an author page to get my hiney in gear on this one. She pointed out that for many, it is the preferred way to communicate about things they like — so not being there I was missing out on opportunities to connect. I took her […]
