In the air this morning: # Yeah, the story’s coming along. As I figured, it’ll be tomorrow before I’ll consider it finished–and I’ll probably let it sit until the weekend to do a full editing pass, so technically it won’t be in a readable state until then. Fair enough. But it’s come together now and […]

Listening to British Blues today. # So I did my walk at lunch yesterday and the results were astoundingly good. Thirty-plus minutes of exercise in the sunshine and open air, ten-plus pages of line-edited manuscript, and a complete framework of what the story is about. Game, set, and match. Well…not quite so fast. I’ve used […]

The story I mentioned in the Oct 5 entry is nearing the end. It has a new title, which I like considerably more, and the framework of the whole thing works better. It may need one more element. We’ll see. It stands on its own pretty well now, though. So that’s progress. While the weather […]

For the past few days I’ve been fiddling around with a cranky story. It was an unhappy little thing, something I wrote in late summer and just haven’t gotten back to in order to really fix it. Upon some reflection I felt the hole in it–or at least felt a hole. We’ll see later if […]

Lisa says my story in a day isn’t actually, you know, uh … finished. She is, unfortunately, so correct. Rewrite in progress.

I was listening to the most recent Adventures in Sci Fl Publishing podcast, featuring an interview with Kris Rusch, and she said something that I really already knew. She said that writing is a muscle, and that to write fast you just need to practice writing fast. Well, duh. But, you see, I’ve been off […]

So, here I am: story line is flowing, but time for real work arrives. Dang. Of course, I’m stuffed with ideas right now. I was taking a walk at lunchtime yesterday and worked out an entire storyline as I went. This in addition to work I was doing on the SF novel I picked up […]