Category: Short Fiction

  • The Big Week of Fiction Only includes Getting My Ass Kicked

    The Big Week of Fiction Only includes Getting My Ass Kicked

    Monday morning… Wild Optimism. Will have Vipers’ Nest done by end of day Tuesday. Seven hours in, I was only a short way into the new bug-hunter’s sheet I’d started. Tuesday morning… Well, I’ll surely at least be finished with this one bug-hunter’s questions by the end of today. Seven hours later, I’d finished one…

  • Site updates to reflect what I’m doing as a writer

    Site updates to reflect what I’m doing as a writer

    I’m doing some rearranging of the site. I’ll be adding links to what I’m creating. Aside from semi-regular posts in the blog and the occasional new writing article or fiction snippet, I’ve been running the blog along for years without doing much with it. But here’s the thing: I’m back to writing new fiction every…

  • Currently on the Needles

    Currently on the Needles

    I have the next to last lesson in How to Write a Series almost finished THREE repubbed novelsĀ  now working through a launch under a pseudonym (my first voluntary one) Six novellas I’m reworking, editing, and updating with new covers, formatting, debugging, and other clean-up, including the next NEW story, Longview #4: Gunslinger Moon One…

  • I’ve started writing fiction again

    This is such a delicate thing I’m almost afraid to mention it. But stories started sneaking back into my consciousness after the parathyroid surgery, and lately I’ve been starting each weekday morning writing a few hundred words. It’s what I can make time for before I start into the still-enormous daily workload of getting the…

  • WABWM: New story finished over the weekend

    8:06 AM Finished the short story Long Road Home yesterday (was Do-Over on my weblog progress bar, but the working title sucked). Sentence: A woman who’s lost everything makes a deal with the devil to relive her life, only to discover the deal didn’t work the way she thought. First draft came out at about…