Charlie Cottrell
Author, Artist, and Musician
Category: Writing Process
Book 6 Underway
Good morning (or afternoon or evening or whatever. It’s morning as I write this, so “morning” is part of the salutation)! As you may recall, I recently completed the first draft of Book 5, which is fantastic news and gladdens the very cockles of…
Book Five Complete!
Today, I finished up the first draft to Book 5. It’s the shortest book I’ve written, at just about 45,000 words, but it’s all killer, no filler. I talked with my editor this afternoon and have arranged for it to get edited at the…
On Absence and the Impossibility of Book Five
I’ve been…absent for a while, I know. Missing in action. Lost. Well, it’s time to blow the cobwebs off the site and get to writing again. I was…stalled on Book Five for most of the last year. I was about two-thirds done with it,…
Book 4 Cover Reveal and Release Date
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a book. Books don’t look like either of those other things. What is wrong with your eyes?
The July Project
While I’m entering the home stretch with the rewrite of Book 4, I’ve decided I want to spend the month of July doing something a little different. So, every day for the month of July, I’m going to write a song or a poem….
Book 4 Status Update
By the end of the day (I’m writing this on Wednesday, May 30), I’m hoping to have about 20,000 words on Book 4 written, almost all of them brand-spankin’ new. There’s at least another five or six thousand to write after that before I…
