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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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