I just put the most satisfying words – THE END – an author ever composes onto Void. The last three chapters will be available in their entirety in the next issue of Unnamed Journal. Which means I’ve finished almost a week ahead of my June 1st deadline. Which means I’ve hit all my deadlines this year –… Read More That’s Three Novellas Done, Gang.
Climax done. Now for denouement. I’m toying with making rumors of a characters demise greatly exaggerated. I don’t know if I like the character or just didn’t like the death I had planned. It’s all in the soup, folks.
Last time I posted, I sounded a little overwhelmed by the threads I needed to nail down to finish Void. Today, I can safely report that I’ve finished the 6th Chapter, and am confident that I’ve set the third act up in such a way as to be able to be confident of a quick Chapter… Read More Quick Void Update
I’ve been told by people that it’s impressive how much progress I’m making in these projects I’m doing. I appreciate their appreciation, and prefer that I’m actually getting things done instead of aspiring to them. But I, as the author, know better. Void is a pain in my butt. Because I’ve been writing it for a… Read More Struggling Through the Void
A bunch of merry business has gone by. Allow me to fill you in: The Party At the Last Tomorrow is finished. Drafted, anyway. I’m going to go back in the summer and give it a thorough edit, tie down some loose threads, establish the things in the early chapters that I pantsed in the… Read More Pre-Vacation Update
In the past, I’d finish a chapter of something and let it marinate, let my juices recharge, get back to the next chapter when I’ve a mind to. That approach, it no worky. So the fifth Chapter of Void is finished. I’m not going to post a link to it, because Void chapters are spoken for by… Read More UJ9 Upcoming, Outlining LT6
Writing -any creative endeavor, really – is all about giving yourself permission to fail. Now, in one sense, that’s idiotic and ridiculous. The purpose of art is not to make something that’s bad. It’s not to allow something that’s bad to enter the market. The purpose of art is to make something that people respond… Read More WriteTip: When You Get Stuck, You Just Keep Going
The first draft of The Devil Left Him is finished. Read up to the penultimate chapter for free on Tablo. Just in Time for Lent, which, among other things, honors Jesus’ Fast in the Desert. The last chapter is done, too, but I’m holding on to it for now. It will be edited and then published… Read More One, Down, Two to Go…
First, update to The Party at the Last Tomorrow (Click image to go to Tablo and read it) I am now 4 chapters and about 8500 words into this one. That’s the least amount of progress on any of the things I’m working on right now, which is surprising because it’s the one I conceived earliest. I… Read More The Year of the Three Novellas (which are probably novelettes, but whatever)
First off, there’s a new chapter up. It’s actually an old chapter, since I update on Tablo one chapter behind. So When I finished Chapter 5 this morning, I made Chapter 4 available. I do it that way because it feels good not to be behind my audience. That means I have about 1, maybe… Read More Naming the Dark One: a “The Devil Left Him” Update
Content Blues 