Caturday Quickies: Good news and tech crisis averted
What should I find in my inbox today but a lovely message from Sopphey Vance that Enhance No. 14 is out :) Aside from my lovely photograph (my first chosen for publication) you should check out all the...
View ArticleThe next chapter: January 2014 update
For those of you who may not remember, I decided to try out some new programs and templates for my writing this year. So far, Scrivener and OneNote haven’t seen a lot of action. I think that if I start...
View ArticleSundog snippets: Something I learned about myself as a creative person this week
This week has not been a very productive one for writerly goodness. I have been so tired. I’ve attempted to write despite that, but I haven’t managed to get into what they call “flow.” I think I’ve...
View ArticleThe next chapter: February 2014 update
Greetings writerly peeps! As I mentioned yesterday, this winter has gotten me a bit down, and as a result I have not written as much as I would have liked to this month. There were some nights that I...
View ArticleThe next chapter: March 2014 update
Today was, indeed, a glorious new day. This morning, the sun was shining, the high for the day was predicted to be above zero degrees Celsius (it turned out to be plus six), and Phil made me...
View ArticleThe next chapter: April 2014 update
If March was a little weird, April was a whole lot weird. Lemme ‘splain. I abandoned the thought of keeping to any kind of “schedule” with regard to my writing. At the end of last month, I had drafts...
View ArticleThe next chapter: May 2014 update
This is going to be a short update. All of the new words I produced this month were from blogging (7503), even though I didn’t blog for a whole week because of chaos. It was good chaos, but...
View ArticleThe next chapter: June 2014 update
Hey all! I must say that June was a blockbuster month for me. It started with the publication of my science fiction short story “The Broken Places” being published in Bastion Science Fiction Magazine....
View ArticleThe Writing Process Blog Hop
Yes, it’s actually happening! I had a bit of a false start back in April when Gemma Hawdon originally tagged me, and now that Claudette Young, A.K.A. Claudsy has tagged me for a second time, I actually...
View ArticleThe next chapter: July 2014 update
July was much the same as June for me. I worked primarily on Gerod and the Lions, am still slowly mapping out Figments, and though I did some work on a short story (it’s almost 10K, so not really...
View ArticleThe Next Chapter: August 2014 update
This has been a weird month, writing-wise. I started out well enough, continued working on Gerod and the Lions, and started revising one of my longer short stories for submission. Then I went to When...
View ArticleThe Next Chapter: September 2014 update
So here we are at the beginning of October, my favourite month, not in least because Samhain (Hallowe’en) was my hatch-day (and yes, I’ve heard them all and would proudly claim to be witch, werewolf,...
View ArticleThe Next Chapter: October 2014 update
The month’s been a bit of a wonky one. I started out working on Gerod and the Lions, but with NaNoWriMo coming up, I started to work on my outline for my project more and more. That work was all done...
View ArticleThe next chapter: November 2014 update
So. Just to get it out there, I didn’t meet my NaNo goal this year. Honestly, I thought it was going to be a tall order writing 50k words while working full time. If you remember my pre-NaNo post, I...
View ArticleThe Next Chapter: December 2014 update and a year in the writerly life
Janus has two heads so he can look back and ahead. Plus, you really can’t make meaningful progress unless you take some time to reflect on your accomplishments and understand where your journey has...
View ArticleSomething awesome and dreaming up new story ideas . . . literally
Earlier in the week, a friend of mine posted to Facebook that he’d received his copy of the Fall 2014 issue of On Spec—with my short story, “Downtime,” in it! Woohoo! See—that’s my actual name on the...
View ArticleThe next chapter: January 2015 update
Technically, I could have written this post last Saturday, but I was still writing into the evening and I count everything up until go to sleep on the last day of the month. As is often the case,...
View ArticleThe Next Chapter: February 2015 update
As you may have been able to surmise from recent weekend posts, February was a rough month for me. March is gearing up to be another such, but, the good news? Apparently, work misery doesn’t affect my...
View ArticleThe next chapter: March 2015 update
Last month, I wrote about how I was reprioritizing my life because I’d made the realization that pouring all my creative energy into the day-job was not making me happy. It wasn’t getting me any closer...
View ArticleThe next chapter: April 2015 update
Where I’ve been I don’t know how to say this, but April kind of sucked. Due to the situation at work, I decided to give myself a true break for the Easter long weekend. So, no writing there. The next...
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