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I'm 46, Married with two sons. This blog will document my attempt to get my children's novel published.
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Now where was I?

Posted by Russell Sanderson on Friday, August 23, 2013, In : Writing update 

While waiting for the results of my latest efforts to try to get signed with an agent, I decided not to waste time lingering and re-started work on the sequel.  One thing I found straight away was that I had kind of "lost my thread" and needed to get back into the story in order to continue it, so I decided to perform a line by line edit on the 20,000 words I'd already written in order to refresh my memory and make sure I didnt forget any important minor details.

Reaching the end of the proces...
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So far, so good.

Posted by Russell Sanderson on Saturday, April 6, 2013, In : Writing update 
So far I've kept up with my self imposed challenge of 5000 words for the first week and it's looking good for week two with 4000 words written and 3 days to go.  If I can keep this up, then it's entirely feasible that I could have a working first draft of the Iron Golem within 3 months.

No news on the agent front.  I was hoping to have heard back from one of them just before Easter but nothing so far.  I know they all went to Bologna children's book fair the week before and it's entirely possi...
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Start as you mean to go on.

Posted by Russell Sanderson on Saturday, March 30, 2013, In : Writing update 
A good start to the Iron Golem.  I promised myself 5000 words by next tuesday and I'm at almost 3000 so far.  Added to the little bits I'd done already that puts me into chapter three (plus the prologue).  Some of it has been hard going (lots of potentially interesting distractions) but I forced myself to keep going and I'm quite pleased with the results. 

Already totally off the reservation as far as the story plan goes, but that's not unusual.  The bits I've changed so far are the parts I t...
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Let's get started.

Posted by Russell Sanderson on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, In : Writing update 
Made some progress on the short story tonight (2500 words in) but then felt it wasn't what I really wanted to be doing, so at long last, after much planning and procrastination, I've started writing the Iron Golem, the sequel to the Chronomancer's Daughter.

I'd already written a prologue some time ago but had been struggling with my plan for the first chapter as I felt it wasn't exciting enough.  In the event, I've totally re-planned the first chapter so we get into the action on the first pag...
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