Since we’re nearing the end of the month, I thought I would take a look at my New Year’s Resolutions. To remind, I made three of them. Average over 20K steps a day Write fiction every day Read a short story every day Today I’ll talk about he first one–personal activity. Let me start by […]
Read More ...My So Tough Life
Yesterday I received an email from a writer acquaintance who said she was working her way through “Five Magics,” and enjoying it. I can tell you that these kinds of things can be filed under “Things that Ain’t Too Bad.” # I suddenly find myself juggling three short stories, a series of novellas, and at […]
Read More ...In the Moment
I put another 1,200 words onto my “found” story idea this morning, bringing it up to something around 2,700 total and counting. It’s an interesting process right now because I’m moving forward without any real clue to where each section is going. It’s really a full discovery mode process, unnerving in ways, and thrilling in […]
Read More ...18 Days?
So it takes 18 days to get over a cough. File this under Something I Should Have Known. Of course, the thing I think is most interesting is the piece about how the use of antibiotics in these cases tend to support people in their misguided perception that they helped–despite the fact that they are […]
Read More ...Sucked & Didn’t Suck
Three things that sucked this morning: Waking up at 4:30 to see the temperature outside was 9F, then finding it was 7F two hours later. Dear World, You’re going in the wrong damned direction, okay? Cat puke on carpet. I assume it was an editorial comment on our decision to leave her behind for five […]
Read More ...The ConFusion Bounce
Okay, so ConFusion was hella-fun. I can tell when a convention has worked for me when I find myself just wanting to write forever after I get back. That’s certainly the case tonight. It took us pretty much all day to drive back, so I’m brain-dead tired, and busy doing some basic clean-up and latching […]
Read More ...An Unexpected Surprise
I sat down this morning to do some writing, and in a somewhat random occurrence I found myself opening an old file that I had stored in my “stories started” folder. I don’t know how anyone else works, but this is a folder that is jammed full of things I’ve started, then grew tired of […]
Read More ...Welcome to Hectic City
Holy Cows, has January been hectic. I mean, fifteen days have absolutely flown past. I’m working the normal 9-10 hours a day, reading tons of short stuff, and getting to the gym occasionally. I’ve easily topped my 20K steps a day goal as an average. I took a full day and pulled off a surprise […]
Read More ...Three Good things about today
1) “Finished” the first draft of the short story I’ve been working on for the last week or so. I think it’s going to be good before it’s all said and done. 2) Another 20,000+ step day. I’ve been over 20K every day but one this year, and averaging probably 24K or so. 3) Cards […]
Read More ...Writing Romance Like Myke
Myke Cole, who used to wander by my pages back in the day before he became a big wig author [grin], just posted about an exercise he ran where he wrote a romance scene and submitted it to a contest wherein readers were asked to guess the gender of the writer. Myke writes hard, military […]
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