Category: Notes on Writing – Year 2038 Bug

Notes on Writing: How I Built the Idea for the “Year 2038 Bug” Story I am publishing the second chapter of my serial book, “Year 2038 Bug”, you can find it at the link included below. In this chapter, I introduce the character Jake, a software developer in San Jose. He and his roommate and…

Notes on Writing: Keeping things Short I’ve posted the next chapter of my Work In Progress (WIP), not a lot to write about at this time. I am slowly plugging through the chapters and it can be challenging to keep track of things due to the time in between publication. Because of this, I wrote…

Notes on Writing: Repetition For this installment of The Year 2038 Bug I am a week late on finishing up this chapter. I did finish the initial draft last week but I ran out of steam before I edited the content. For those with an eye for detail, I suspect you wonder if any editing…

Notes on Writing: Back to the Main Story I’ve finished the section of back story for each character, it helped me in filling out their motivations and character for the main story. Now back to the main story, we join Jake as he tries to figure out what has happened and reports in for duty…

Notes on Writing: 2038 Backstory 2031 For those few who are following along, this is the last of the back stories, at least for the moment. This story is about Deidre and how she left home. I have enjoyed writing this section but I suspect that most of this will be pulled out of the…

Notes on Writing Links WHile publishing this book I am writing a series of articles, Notes on Writing that provide some background about my writing process. Here are links to all of those articles in the order they were published. Notes on Writing: How I Built the Idea for the “Year 2038 Bug” Story Notes…

Notes on Writing: 2038 Timeline Time for another chapter for my book in progress, “Year 2038 Bug”. I had a nice surprise while writing this chapter, the text flowed smoothly and I didn’t experience a blocking problem when capturing my thoughts. While I have felt the need to set up background for my story in…

Delay in Post for “Year 2038 Bug” Next Chapter I have finished the writing for the post today, the next chapter in my “Year 2038 Bug” book, but I need to finish editing before I put it up. While this is a rough draft version, I would like to smooth it out a little bit…

Notes on Writing: How Not to Outline a Book The latest chapter for the Year 2038 Bug is up on the website so time for another set of notes about my writing. This time I’m answering a question about how I plan my writing and the books I work. The short answer is that I…

Notes on Writing: Throwaway Chapters for Works in Progress Later than I wanted, but I finished my edit of the next chapter of the “Year 2038 Bug” novel. It is posted on our website, link below. This was a tough chapter to work on and I’m not sure if it will stay in the final…