Novelist, writing teacher, on a mission to reprint my out-of-print books and self-publish my new ones.
Something you might not know about me. Back in the early 2000’s, I was fat. Not chubby. Not “just need to lose a few pounds.” Morbidy obese. The point at which I stopped weighing myself and just gave up was when the scale hit 220, but I didn’t quit eating, and didn’t quit needing roomier clothes. So I weighed more … Continue reading →
WEEK 1: How to Think Short: Learning the Concepts Behind Short Stories WEEK 2: How to Plan Short: Building the Pieces of Short Fiction WEEK 3: How to Write Short: Writing to Submission Lengths WEEK 4: How to End Short: Landing The Twist and The Meaning WEEK 5: Contests, Anthologies, Collections: Writing To A Theme WEEK 6: Time and the … Continue reading →
Got everything set up yesterday. So for the next week or so, I’ll be doing the revision of the 30,000-word Vipers’ Nest, and following that each day, building the curriculum for my next new writing class, How to Write Short Stories. My Patreon folks will get the inside look at the Vipers’ Nest revision with marked-up revision pages of a … Continue reading →
The story came in at 30,073 words. Close enough to the 30,000 I’d planned to make me happy. It’s really different this time. I ended up not using anything from the previous (two – sigh) first drafts. The story focuses on Shay, Melie, Wils Bailey (THE Bailey from Bailey’s Irish Space Station), the station, Herog (and peripherally Cady), and on … Continue reading →
I have mentioned (from time to time), that I am incapable of sitting still. Moving fingers prevent me from having to bounce a foot. A moving foot while I read allows me to keep my hands still for a bit. Awake, I find myself randomly walking down the hall in the middle of work without any conscious awareness that I … Continue reading →
HAH! In spite of having to do a ton of work on income tax this week, I still managed to get in four writing hours (and nearly 4,000 words) of Vipers’ Nest. So I’ll do one more hour tomorrow morning to catch up with my Patreon writing. Getting close to the end, and THIS time the story is tighter, and holding … Continue reading →
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 weekday. I’m back to writing … Continue reading →
Yesterday, my first new class in quite a few years went live. This is How to Write Villains. The class will take eight weeks (minimum – it could a couple lessons more depending on questions I get in class as I’m building it), and right now I’m covering: LESSON 1: Understanding Evil and Villainy (FINISHED) LESSON 2: Creating Good, Bad, … Continue reading →
Not sure what’s going on, but I am feeling sick to my stomach, kind of week, and listless, and after staring at the keyboard for an hour trying to get words on Vipers’ Nest, I’m throwing in the towel. Words accomplished? Zero. This is either sick, stuck, or stuck because I’m sick. I’m taking the day off no matter which … Continue reading →
A year ago on the 18th of this month, I posted the last updates. Since then, I’ve done: Significant expansion in Bailey’s Irish Space Station, adding more story generator questions for myself and a LOT of buildings in new wing of the station, Light additions to Longview A lot of new buildings and some new questions in the City of … Continue reading →
