JRileyPeak

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  • Questline Delayed: A Paradox of Results

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    I enjoy tracking my word output, like most authors. Typically, I’m aiming for a rough daily word count throughout the week (minimum of 250, but once I hit a stride with a story it usually bumps up to more like 700-1,000 words a day) and then I enjoy tallying up the monthly totals to see…

  • Lessons I Learned Through The Game

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    It feels crazy to think that roughly a year ago I declared the manuscript for The Game ready to move forward into pre-publishing work. The feeling of passing the manuscript off of the work table and, in that sense, away from a sense of semi-fluidity under my hands was sureal. It felt like the whole…

  • Questline: The Other Book

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    I know that if I keep switching which book I’m talking about working on I’m going to start sounding very uncommitted to this whole authorship thing. But, I do have one more book to mention at this time. It’s the one I’m actually working on writing at this moment. Enter Questline. This book originally came…

  • What’s This “Big Boy” Book?

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        It may have struck some of you as odd that I’ve leaned my past several months into a project other than Questline. I have every intention of cranking out Questline this year, but before I could lean into it fully I needed to get this larger story out of my head and onto some metaphorical…

  • The Forming of an Author

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        What a ride!     I feel like this whole author thing just kinda shot off like a rocket this past Fall and I’ve only now taken the time to look and see just how far up that initial burst took me.     It’s enough to give me a giddy sense of light-headedness!     Now, I cannot deny that…