Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I released the third and final part of The Old Man of the Elder Trees this weekend, and the ending was warmly received and enjoyed. This gave me such a good feeling that I was a lot like the little... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Things have been getting into gear this week as I make more adjustments to writing full-time. There has been a lot of planning and retooling going on. Concurrent with this big change in my life, my wife also started a... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! This week has had a number of different challenges for me, most revolving around adjustment, change and preparatory work. As I announced last week, I’ve decided to make a go at writing full-time. It’s an enormous life and work style... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! My first chapter of A Contract in Azure and Indigo went live on Aethereal Engines Saturday and was well received! I’m looking forward to seeing how people enjoy it going forward, as each of the remaining three chapters has big... Continue Reading →
The heroes and villains of A Contract in Azure and Indigo aren’t your typical fantasy archetypes. Far from being wizards or warriors, they’re regular folks whose concerns over the farm outweigh those they have over monsters. But the world, and magic, has a way of intruding sometimes… Until what begins with an air of mystery... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I finished the first draft of The Old Man of the Elder Trees on Saturday morning. Huzzah! Weighing in at seventy-eight hundred words, it gave me the hardest time as I tried to craft its ending. Right up until the... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! With a revised and polished second draft of my novelette A Contract in Azure and Indigo in hand, I shared it with a new reader. Having read the original version of the story, she gave some great feedback.. Particularly her... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! It’s been a better week for my writing and health than last. With a cold in retreat and stiches removed, I received my first feedback on A Contract in Azure and Indigo from one of my alpha readers. Their initial... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Continuing and brutally cold weather didn’t stop me from completing my top-to-bottom rewrite of A Contract in Azure and Indigo this week! I was fortunate to have had some slow periods at work to sneak-in some writing on Thursday-Friday, because... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Snow and ice have reasserted their presence in my corner of the planet after a mild stretch of winter. My weekend was bordered by a pair of storms Friday and Monday that made my Saturday and Tuesday interesting “clean-up and... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! This week I received a second round of feedback on The Brynesmark and worked it into a third draft. The catches were good, mostly typos and homonyms, and very easy to implement. This particular reader had a very positive reaction,... Continue Reading →
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Just a quick update this week. I’ve devoted as much time as a can to writing a pirate tale for the Reddit writers challenge that starts tomorrow, but an interrupted Saturday has left me frustrated and with the story unfinished.... Continue Reading →
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