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 […]
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Something to Say
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,” […]
Read More ...Episode 5 – In the Bag
Happy anniversary to my sweetie! # So, yeah, I’ve been working on the fantasy series again, and it’s been going well enough. But this morning I finally figured out what episode 5 is about, and suddenly things seem so much easier. Like most such epiphanies, this one had a sense of “well, duh” about it. […]
Read More ...Writing, Rewriting, and Copyediting
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 […]
Read More ...I’ll Have a Diversion, With a Side Dish of Short Story
Yes, I did say that yesterday I started back on the fantasy novella project, and I did say that yesterday it went well. Of course, today I was diverted by some work I needed to accomplish on a pair of short stories. Welcome to the life of a writer with a day-job. One of those […]
Read More ...Garrick Returns
This morning found me return to the series of fantasy novellas I had been working on so diligently last fall until I got side-tracked by NaNoWriMo, and then a series of short stories, and then the Oregon Writer’s Workshop. I still have work running on a couple short stories, and I have a friend’s WIP […]
Read More ...A Walk on the Beach
Sunday afternoon, before we left, Lisa Silverthorne and I walked on the beach along the Cost of Lincoln City, Oregon. It was a sunny day, but cold. I was wearing layers, as was Lisa, but the wind can still somehow manage to get through. It didn’t matter, though. It was, at that moment, the perfect […]
Read More ...An Announcement, and the Weekend of Zero Sleep
I’m pleased to announce that John Helfers has accepted my short story “The Legend of Parker Clark and Lois Jane” for publication in his Fiction River anthology “How to Save the World.” Yay! # I’m sitting here in a hotel room in Portland, Oregon, reflecting back on four outstanding days spent at a workshop hosted […]
Read More ...Time For a Little Reading
So, I know what I’ll be doing for the next few days worth of my “free time.” I’ll be heading to Oregon next Wednesday to participate in a workshop focused on anthologies, hosted by Kris Rusch and Dean Smith. This morning we received a reading assignment–work through 20+ stories by the time the workshop begins. […]
Read More ...Estimating … Piff!
So the “80s Song Story” turned out to be 3,000 words, rather than 2,500. Who can estimate, eh? This is relevant to a conversation Brigid (my daughter) and I had yesterday. She’s working on a short story as a partial break from her book, and I asked her to guess how long it would be–realizing […]
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