I’m happy to note that Five Magics, my collection of five short stories is now officially available as a nice little paperback. This is a project I’ve had on the back-burner for far too long, but makes me happy because, while I haven’t been writing a lot of sword and sorcery short stories in a […]

I’m writing this a little bit early, so I’m giving myself a little more credit that I deserve—meaning I’m claiming 1,000 words. I’m really at just north of 500, but I’m charging on and I imagine I’ll get there pretty soon. It’s just that my brain needed a break and I wanted to write this […]

Geez. Like, um, what day is it? Early Morning Session Doing a bit of pseudo live blogging this one, let me note that I have been working in roughly three chunks of time each day. There’s the Early Morning Session (where I often do low-grade work that is achievable while a cat lays on my […]

I got a few hundred more words in yesterday, and then today had one of my better days of the month, “finishing” with 2,400 new words and maybe 1,000 on the recycle scale—which is kind of my “Who’s Line is It” of metrics. I mean, recycle points don’t matter, but I track them anyway. The […]

Yesterday I noted that I did a bit of pseudo code work on three chapters that came to me as I was rambling in other directions. Today I got to work fleshing them out. As I write this, I’m at about 2,300 new words, and I’ve finished almost all of that…um…fleshing. I need to dismount […]

Today was a “gift” day in more ways than one. The obvious way is that I chose today to give a present to my newsletter followers—which is always fun. But in ways more relevant to the Dare, this day gave me about 1,200 words on a story path that I wasn’t really expecting, but in […]

This “novel in two months” Dare has an interesting vibe to it. I think it’s coming at the right time. If you’re following this at all, you’ve got the general gist of things. I have so many things to get done, you see—both simply to live life as well as to get my feet under […]

Day 19 I’ve said it before. The upside of being an indie writer/publisher is that you get to control everything. The downside is that you have to do everything. Yesterday was going to be a biggish day, but then I got deeply into working on a cover and product description for my “On Writing” book, […]

So here I am today, settling back into the book. Something over 2,000 words today. I could move on with it, but I’ve got other irons in the fire, and I’m at a place where (1) my brain is a bit over-saturated on the story right now, and (2) I’m kind of in the middle […]

Pretty good day overall in the Collins household. 1,600 words on the creation front—another couple thousand in the “recycle” bin. The book is beginning to get to that middle stage where things are cavorting around and I’m wondering if I’m adding stuff that shouldn’t be there. In this case it’s a small sub-plot between a […]