I was right yesterday when I said that stopping in the middle of a scene would give me some momentum leading into today. Once I got my brain settled into my alien environment, I grabbed the reins and plopped down another 800 or so clean new words that “finished” the scene. There was a lo […]

My brain is still settling into the alien world and is flailing with that “you’ll never be able to make this work” kind of vibe. It’s coming, though. I’m also still shuffling bits of the plot back and forth as things settle into the timeline. That’s a long way of saying things were slow yesterday—I […]

The best plans go awry, right? Today settled out all right. I ended up with what I’ll credit as 1,000 new words (and some recycle). But that’s fine. Today is a big fake baseball day (I should probably make a reference post to that sometime since I talk about it sometimes), so I knew in […]

First, in a case of good news catching up, I managed an extra 500 words yesterday evening after posting my update, so that bumps me up a touch—and every little bit helps. This morning I got a clean 1,000 words when I hit “open ground” and just had fun letting the characters play. That’s always […]

You’ll be shocked to learn that having words already written on an earlier draft of a story doesn’t really speed you up as much as you’d think. In fact, it slows you down. Truth is, I’d probably have been better off just to dump them and write fresh—but instead I spent today “recycling” over the […]

I finished yesterday with about a thousand new words. Hard to call, really, for reasons I outlined yesterday. Getting a little more settled now. I’ll claim 600 new words this morning and expecting maybe 500 more before calling it a day. We’ll see. I’ve got a chore or two to deal with, and then maybe […]

I’m happy to say that the “Broken Dreams” volume of Fiction River is being released today.I say that for more than the usual reasons, though, because this volume includes “Day of the Party,” which so happens to have been my mother’s absolute favorite story of mine. I’ll never think of it without thinking of her. […]

So today is March 1st, and that makes it a big day all around. I may drop a couple entries focusing on fiction that’s being released by Brigid and me, but this one is made to talk about the “Soft Dare” that we’ve decided to undertake. A Full Dare is one in which we endeavor […]

Today is my 90th day in a row of hitting writing goals. Yay me. Let me cut to the chase, though: the past couple years have been traumatic for a lot of creative people, and checking the rearview mirror says that I’ve been one of them. Or still am, I suppose. But it seems that […]

Publication day is always a good day, so you can take it from there. Happy to announce that my story “Star Cruise” is now available in the anthology Have Ship, Will Travel. This a big collection of stories from a lot of really talented writers (and me, too!). So if you’re a fan of Space […]