Very good morning at the keyboard. I’m now two-thirds through what I expect to be the last run through Lords of Existence, and the work is flowing really well. I’m getting that feeling where everything makes sense (which shouldn’t be too remarkable, I suppose, since a few days back when I realized what the story […]

As projected, I was side-tracked with a short story rewrite that took up a morning and a half of my time. This was “The Guardians a Chicago,” a story I expect to be in an anthology soonish. And it wasn’t a rewrite so much as it was a very detailed pass at the language of […]

I’m in what I expect to be the final dash for Episode 5, Lords of Existence. Now that I fully get it, I went back to the beginning this morning, and ran through the first half of it again (55-60 pages or so). I would like to get the second half done tomorrow morning, but […]

A story, I think, really ought to have something to say.  And episode 5, which will almost certainly be titled Lords of Existence, is at that point where I’m working particularly hard to ensure it says what I want it to say.  To me at least. The great thing about the “have something to say,” […]

Last night, I had another brief distraction from the novellas in the form of the need to review the copy edited manuscript of “The Legend of Parker Clark and Lois Jane.” This is the story that will be published soon in the Fiction River anthology titled “How to Save the World.” It’s always interesting to […]