So I stripped out the back end of D-dad and took a different direction. The story’s wound up at about 3,400 words, now and I think it’s pretty much in its final form. Here’s a not-so-secret secret. Writing a 10,000 word story doesn’t take much longer than writing a 3,000 word story. For me, anyway. […]
Read More ...Another Draft 1 Bites the Dust
I finished the first draft D-Dad, the short story I mentioned yesterday. It registers now at 3200 words, and probably needs to be a touch shorter–the back end is a bit loose. But overall, I’m happy with it. The idea came as a response to a classic story I listened to while at the gym […]
Read More ...Novels, Jealousy, and a New Short
The best thing about having completed and shipped a novel some place, in my semi-humble opinion, is that it takes away the nagging desire to tinker and clears the way for other work. But the beast is off my desk now, and suddenly two days later I find myself nearing the end of a short […]
Read More ...WotF 25th Anniversary Vid
Interesting little video about the Writers of the Future–filled with a bunch of L.Ron Hubbard stuff, of course…but hey, the guy at about 0:52 looks a little familiar. Share Me
Read More ...One Book, Done
A day later than planned, but I can live with that–oh, the glorious benefits of being without book contracts. Share Me
Read More ...Okay…10 Pages
All right, the goal was 80 pages over the weekend, and I didn’t quite make it. Instead, I’m looking at ten pages to go sitting here on Monday afternoon. Not bad, really. If I still have any brain power left this evening, I might even get them done before the true deadline. (I started this […]
Read More ...80 Pages?
So I’ve been working on this novel again. When I started, I projected that it would be finished by the end of this weekend. It looks like it’s going to be close, as I’m down to the last 60 pages or so and the heavy work is clearly done. Yeah, I know. I said the […]
Read More ...Catching up
So, among other things, I’ve been trying to increase my reading lately. In the past month I’ve gone back and read Bruce Sterling’s Holy Fire, and now I’m a couple hundred pages into Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon–which, of course, means that I’ve got about 25 gazillion pages to go. I’ve also read a bunch of short […]
Read More ...Officially Back
So I completed a story this morning. At 12,500 words it’s another novelette, of course. I think I’m now pathologically incapable of telling a story under 10,000 words. (That’s wrong, of course. One of my last four has been an honest-to-goodness short story, but let’s not bring truth or data into it.) I’ve titled it […]
Read More ...Changes
My writing is changing. By this I mean both my method and my output. I started thinking about this a few weeks ago because I’m finding that I’m often uncomfortable when I sit down to write these days, and I admit I don’t like this. In the “old days” I was rarely uncomfortable. In the […]
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