So… here it is Friday morning, July 6, and I have been working steadily for six hours a day on the bug-hunts for Vipers’ Nest every day but Monday… Granted, as I’m getting into the bug hunts from my later folks, I’m getting a lot of repeat finds. But I have not had one bug hunter who hasn’t found at … Continue reading →
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 third of of the SAME … Continue reading →
My Choose-Your-Own-Adventure email game has gone live! You can play the game now if you’re already a list member, or restart at ANY time (using your same email) by joining the adventure at the bottom of any page on this site… Or if you don’t see the Adventure sign-up on your browser, you can join the game HERE. The game … Continue reading →
Today I spent three Patreon hours putting together the bug-hunter version of Longview 5: The One With The Broken Title. This involved cleaning up a significant amount of weird formatting in Scrivener — (my fault) — moving the project into .docx, then opening it in Vellum and doing the actual book formatting, setting and revising front matter, end matter, hand-setting … Continue reading →
I’m going to need some beta readers for the story that was going to be Vipers’ Nest. So much changed in the writing of it that the Vipers’ Nest in that title turned into a side plot, and the title no longer fits. As I mention in the afterword (written just a few minutes ago) things change. This time they … Continue reading →
It’s done! It feels like I’ve been working on Vipers’ Nest forever. I can’t believe it, but it’s finally fully and completely revised, and I LOVE the way it came out. This has been a brutal project, because it hit in the middle of personal chaos, website chaos, GDPR chaos… And for the longest time, I couldn’t find the ending. … Continue reading →
Sometimes it pays to clean your desk. There it was, a printed copy of the incomplete manuscript with all my notes, all the background stuff, all the words. And then I noticed the manuscript was printed in one of my earlier Scrivener formats. Maybe two years ago. So I dug through the printed version, did a search for a unique … 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’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 →
Someone forwarded me a deep space transmission that suggests my old friend Cadence Drake is in more trouble than usual. You might know Cady. Spaceship pilot, independent finder of lost things out in settled space? Has mad skills in locating people? And trouble? No? Well, my unknown ally has said I’ll receive all the interceptions findable that run from the bounty hunter tracking … Continue reading →
