Tyler Hillis

It is finished! The first draft, at least. Coming in at 390 pages, 110,000 words, 28 Chapters. The Great Tower City has taken its first complete form. This, my biggest project to date, took three months of daily writing to complete. I’ve detailed my process in a previous post, but committing to at least a…

The work continues with steady routine. When I first set out to write this book, I never imagined how long it would take me to finish the first draft. Once I got a little over halfway through it, the length intimidated me. I saw what was left to write and felt as though my ambition…

Continuing on into the great unknown. I’ve now passed 200 pages of my book and nearing the big climax. I’m anticipating another 100 or so to wrap everything up. I realize pages aren’t the best way to measure length since they can vary in format. A better measurement is word count, which I am currently…

Despite falling off on these blog posts, I did not fall off on my writing schedule. It’s an amazing feeling to be sitting here on December 1, and be able to say I wrote every single day last month. My minimum requirement was one hour every day. A few times, I barely scraped by that,…

It’s been about a week since I started this project in full force. Ten days to be exact, but I haven’t written today, so technically nine days to be exactly exact. In those nine days of writing, I’ve had to face the swathe of emotions commonly tied with this sort of work. Elation. Depression. Exhaustion.…