Tag: urban fantasy

  • The Ghost Who’ll Be Coming to Ohio

    The Ghost Who’ll Be Coming to Ohio

    The text message at the top of this post (which I sent to Matt at 3:34 AM on 12/6/20) includes the date and time because my half-sister, Julie, died in 2016, before her birthday, which was December 3rd. I got the news of her death from my older son, Mark, who called Matt while we…

  • Trusting your characters to surprise you: 1400 words from Friday, reported a day late

    Trusting your characters to surprise you: 1400 words from Friday, reported a day late

    Writing yesterday went really well. I hit this awesome surprise, where one of my characters suddenly did something perfectly unexpected, showing up at my main character’s house with a cell phone video showing the impossible in action. It was exactly the weird and twisty wonderfulness that thrilled me, and made me laugh, and at the…

  • Better and better — Ohio Novel 2 and 2377 words

    Better and better — Ohio Novel 2 and 2377 words

    I woke up this morning knowing how Ohio #2 needed to end. And today I jumped to all the way to Chapter 25, five chapters from the planned last Chapter 30, and started writing the necessary stuff to get the story to that ending. Tomorrow, I may drop back to chapter 12, and then write toward…

  • Pretty good day — Ohio Novel #2 Progress

    Pretty good day — Ohio Novel #2 Progress

    This morning, I increased my daily word-count goal to 1500 (up from 1250). This was a small change, and I’d been hitting that number pretty regularly anyway. So I decided to make it my regular objective. I came in just above that with 1532 words for the day.  Have a nice situation going on with…

  • Seven. But close to done.

    Seven. But close to done.

    At the moment, I don’t have much more to say than that. If I can get this last hill of shit shoveled, I will then be able to get some actual words today. If I get to my fiction before I run out of working hours, I’ll be starting at 34,298 words, with a writing…

  • Help I didn’t ask for… a long slog ahead to fix what a “helpful” company irreversibly broke

    Help I didn’t ask for… a long slog ahead to fix what a “helpful” company irreversibly broke

    Oh, irony.  Two days ago, I think, “Gee… the writing is going really well, I miss blogging, and I would love to blog about writing fiction again.”  Two days ago, after a middle-of-the-road-but-not-bad day of getting my words — I have fun, I like the words I get, and I get enough of them to…

  • The Ohio Novel #1 Is Done! (Or what it’s like to disappear into a black box)

    The Ohio Novel #1 Is Done! (Or what it’s like to disappear into a black box)

    I wrapped up my final draft yesterday. In spite of best efforts, I came in over my 90,000K wordcount by about 12,000 words. I don’t have a title for the novel yet (Matt comes up with my best titles, and I’m really hoping he can pull out something amazing, both for the first book and…

  • The New Year, My Ohio Series and the Hero’s Journey

    The New Year, My Ohio Series and the Hero’s Journey

    The Crash The new year is just an arbitrary date — not a real thing, not something that can change your life. If you’re in a Western European-derived country, then you use the Western calendar. In which Pope Gregory XIII built a new calendar to update the Julian calendar (which had an issue with equinoxes),…