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Tai Manivong

Dec 30, 20231 min read

Building a new vocal booth part 3

I finally was able to cover the gaps in the vocal booth door. I used rock wool and moving blankets. no more light is getting through the...

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Tai Manivong

Dec 12, 20231 min read

What I’ve been working on

This week has been busy, but I managed to revise 3 chapters of book 4 of The Dragon Keeper Chronicles. It's coming along nicely. I hope...

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Tai Manivong

Nov 30, 20231 min read

The End of NaNoWriMo

So I didn't win the challenge of 50,000 words in 30 days. As I look back at the challenge I can see more preparation is needed for...

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Tai Manivong

Nov 22, 20231 min read

Building a new vocal booth part 2

Finally after a week and some days, I finally had some time to work on my vocal booth. I started with making the walls. Each wall was...

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Tai Manivong

Nov 12, 20231 min read

Building a new vocal booth... part 1

About 8 months ago, I built my first vocal booth. It was made with some 2x1x3 beams and insulated with rockwool then covered with moving...

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Tai Manivong

Nov 8, 20231 min read

It's hard to write words when you work

I wrote 586 words last night and starting thinking... Its really not that easy to write a lot of words after a long day of work. I guess...

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Tai Manivong

Nov 7, 20231 min read

700 hundred words last night..

I didn't get to my 2000 last night but that's ok. I consider 700 a win. I was listening to Michael La Ronn's podcast The Writer's Journey...

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Tai Manivong

Nov 5, 20231 min read

NaNoWrimo Progress

Today is 11/5/23 and I have currently written 2,757 words in my work in progress for NaNoWriMo. I want to try and finish another 3,300...

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Tai Manivong

Nov 4, 20231 min read

Back to writing

I started listening to more writing podcast and am getting back into writing after taking a long hiatus. My life changed a lot this year...

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Tai Manivong

Aug 30, 20232 min read

What I learned Recording my first audiobook

I am so glad I started my journey as an audiobook narrator. Who knew one could have so much fun sitting in a booth creating character...

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Tai Manivong

May 30, 20221 min read

Consistency

I hear a lot that consistency is key, in education, in working out, in classroom management, in writing, in learning new things. The...

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Tai Manivong

Dec 11, 20211 min read

Great insight today

I had a great power hour today! wrote over 600 words. But the best thing was, I went on apple books and saw a great review and the...

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Tai Manivong

Sep 18, 20211 min read

Been out for a bit, I hope you are staying safe.

Hello everyone, There was a tragedy in our family so I have been off the internet. Everything takes a back burner when bad things happen....

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Tai Manivong

Aug 9, 20211 min read

And School begins....

Tomorrow starts the official work day for the school year. I am still hoping to make progress daily on my novels. Today I wrote 977 words...

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Tai Manivong

Aug 1, 20211 min read

Making progress on Book 3

I wrote 1000 words today. I have been reading through chapters, revising, and editing. I haven't fully complete the first draft and am...

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Tai Manivong

Jul 27, 20211 min read

Revising!

So I have 7 days left till my own deadline of finishing my draft for Chalcedony, book 3 of The Dragon Keeper Chronicles series. This...

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Tai Manivong

Jul 20, 20211 min read

3 weeks till school starts and 1101 words

I went to work on setting my my classroom. Teaching second grade this year. I also had a dream about being at school. You know the school...

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Tai Manivong

Jul 16, 20211 min read

943 words today!

I was watching a youtube video by an author that said the average person writes 250 words per hour. Today I decided to see how many I...

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Tai Manivong

Jul 13, 20211 min read

381 words

So far my novel has 32,565 word and my target is 43,000. But really it depends on where the characters take me. 17 more days till my...

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Tai Manivong

Jul 12, 20211 min read

Writing at the Fair

I took the girls to the renaissance fair yesterday. My oldest are teenagers now so they went to explore the fair on their own. I am more...

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Tai Manivong

Author and Voice Over Actor