Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! After six months and 70,000 words, Vivian's Last Cigarette is a finished first draft! The novel came to the end of its initial creation on Sunday, after I completed its last chapter and did some revisions to a couple of... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: January 18th, 2017
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I had a solid weekend of writing, adding close to three-thousand words to the final chapter of Vivian’s Last Cigarette. The manuscript is now likely within a thousand words of becoming a finished first draft… and the excitement of typing... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: January 11th, 2017
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I finally got back to working on Vivian’s Last Cigarette! The last chapter is started, and although I didn’t get a ton written, I did add a solid twelve-hundred words. Those words comprised a tricky opening scene that introduces three... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: January 4th, 2017
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Lots and lots of roadblocks in the way of writing this week. I’m afraid I have nothing new to report in regards to completed fiction. :-( That doesn’t mean it was a bad week, however. Parts of it certainly were... Continue Reading →
Twenty Sixteen: What It Meant to Me
Twenty-Sixteen will be remembered by many as a rotten year. A lot of bad things happened, a lot of beloved people died, and a lot of events were put into motion that place the fate of Twenty-Seventeen under ominous clouds. All the same though, I remember and say this: Events are always in motion. People... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: December 28th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Ah, the last week of the year. That weird bridge between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays usually built with equal parts fatigued lethargy and retrospective. Although I am writing a retrospective for the year to be posted on Saturday,... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: December 21st, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Today is the Winter Solstice of the Northern Hemisphere, known by some as Yule. Most of us are well aware of how many religious holidays occur around this time of year. I think that hearkening back to pre-civilization, our ancestors... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: December 14th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! This will be a much more productive writing update than my prior one. :-) Starting Wednesday of last week, I began crafting a new short story during breaks at work. Writing in flurries and chunks, the tale was two-thirds done... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: December 7th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Last Thursday, my short story “The Boy in the Jar” won the November 2016 Fantasy Writers Challenge! If you would like to give its 1,500 words a read, please click here or on the title card above to be taken... Continue Reading →
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