So there I was, humming along in the “light rewrite” pass when I encountered ten pages of gobbledygook. Actually, I guess it’s better characterized as 5 pages of pretty good stuff, then 5 pages of recursive mess that says a lot of the same stuff all over again. Not quite true gobbledygook. But that’s just […]
Read More ...Typosphere vs. Watermarks!
So, we got back from our standard weekend workout program this morning. I made lunch and settled in for a round of deleting the waves of spam that comes to my blog comments. I was clicking them off by rote when I came across one of my favorites of all time. There among the various […]
Read More ...Picasso’s Cat Update
I’m very happy to point out that the Merry Blacksmith Press has revealed the cover to my collection “Picasso’s Cat and Other Stories.” It’s looking like a late-June release. Stay tuned for more. Share Me
Read More ...Naturally…
[regarding my last post] Of course, the next story I read in Astounding Stories of Super Science (gotta love that title) is full of tentacles, disintegration rays and other knee-slapping examples of scientific misuse of things like, oh, gravity. Not that it wasn’t fun for all that, though. 🙂 Progress: 90+ pages through the light-pass. […]
Read More ...Golden SF
When I first got my ebook reader I assumed I was going to spend most fo my early time with the thing by grabbing a few recent offerings and occasionally dropping one of my own manuscripts into it so I could review my work over the lunch hour. What I’ve really done is to dive […]
Read More ...Rewrite – Phase I Complete
I completed the first phase of my rewrite of “Gene Splice” just a few minutes ago, which is great. I focused completely on structural stuff this time–and there were a few things I fixed. As with my last rewrite effort, anything I thought was “just” an issue of the moment I jotted down to remember […]
Read More ...A Three-Day Thaw
Three long days at the “real job” put a serious damper on my productivity since Monday. Hey, such is life. I did get a bit of work done on the third novel rewrite, and I finished reading a novel I picked up because I was interested in the “free books” movement that’s obviously going around. […]
Read More ...Writing Prompt?
I’m thinking that if you can’t write a story based on this, you’re not trying hard enough. Progress Report: I didn’t mean to go in this direction at all, but I’ve found myself about 60% through a rewrite of another of my earlier novels. This one’s origin was my very first Novel Dare (think NaNoWriMo […]
Read More ...Picasso’s Cat & Others Heads to the Publisher
The tentative title to the collection is Picasso’s Cat and Other Stories. It’s soon to be winging it’s way the the Merry Blacksmit Press for them to do their magic. I’m pleased to confirm that Mike Resnick graciously agreed to write an introduction. The TOC lines up like this right now: The Disappearance of Josie […]
Read More ...Working on Friday Night
Lisa: Did you realize you misspelled Memento? Ron: Hey, they don’t call it the Typo-sphere for nothing. Progress Report: Lisa needed to work late tonight, and I took advantage of the time to go get ice cream and to spend a few extra hours on a manuscript. Not a terrible way to spend an evening. […]
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