You may think this isn’t saying much, but this is my very favorite story written about a guy who cleans portable toilets. It’s up on Kris Rusch’s page for free until next Monday. I’m not joking about enjoying it. It’s a good enough story just as it is, but I fell for it because I […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 21
Congrats to Lisa on cresting the 50K mark! You just can’t beat her, you know? # Morning (7:00 AM) – It was a good morning, with just over 1,400 words logged. The main character has gotten himself fully ensnared, and it looks bad for him. Wonder how he’ll get out of this one? On a […]
Read More ...So, When Do We Book Our Flights to Stockholm?
Given this research, it is clear my beloved Lisa is going to win, and win big. Share Me
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 20
Morning (7:04) – Picked up a good 1,098 words this AM. Not Silverthornian, but I’m not complaining. the main character is in peril, and a plan has been launched to save him even if he doesn’t quite know it. Tiny plot obstacle will need to be overcome here at my next sitting, but it _should_ […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 19
Morning (7:13) – Managed an official 959 morning words via the Microsoft Word judge. The second character, Kinji Hall, takes a step back and ties into her support infrastructure in the form of a night out with a best friend. she’s not feeling good about something, and the friend is going to help her see […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 18
So I picked up 2,610 words today, coulda/shoulda done better, but I’m not going to complain. Story is still moving, and I know pretty much where we’re going starting in the morning–which should portend good progress tomorrow, too. This was a milestone day, too, as we crossed 30,000 words for the package. Share Me
Read More ...A Quick Short Story Recommendation
Brooding in the Dark — an interesting little story by Philip Edward Kaldon in the latest round at Interstellar Fiction. Just 1500 words, but an interesting little exploration of the future remnants of war. Share Me
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 17
Five tough hours, only about 300 words or so in productive moving forward. I have done a lot of thinking through motivations of the “big bad guys” here today, though. The problem here stemmed from me asking myself a fairly simple “what if” question about an AI element of the world I’m creating. The answer […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 15
Managed a hair’s breadth less than a thousand words this morning, the good news and bad news is that a lot of this was an expository dump of story infrastructure in almost outline level detail. It’s bad news in that I’ll need to go back and expand it out–present it in better and more interesting […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 14
Just over 800 words this morning, which meets my minimum expectation. I spent much of the morning fleshing in a little of the details of recent pages, which expanded word count in a good way, but I feel like I’m shying back from the next big movement of the story. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. […]
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