Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! This weekend I returned to Bryan Aiello’s podcast to record a second discussion with him that turned out great. The YouTube video above is this latest interview, and if you missed the first one we did back at the end... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: July 19th, 2017
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! As I mentioned last update, I started writing a short story for the upcoming FantasyWriters challenge near the end of the month. Although I began Cretaceous Queen on a whim and as a gift for a friend, it became an... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: July 26th, 2017
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Cretaceous Queen –my epic tale of magical girls, superheroes, dinosaurs and giant alien robots– is just shy of six thousand words as of today. I hadn’t expected the short story to get this long, figuring that it’d top-out at around... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: August 2nd, 2017
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! After three weekends of writing, I finished a first draft of Cretaceous Queen on Sunday afternoon. :-) It totals 9,300 words currently, taking it beyond the realm of a short story to become a lean novelette. I’m happy with this,... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: August 9th, 2017
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! It’s been an eventful week. On Thursday I received the critique feedback on the first draft of Cretaceous Queen and started working with them. By about midnight, I had a second draft and sent it over to Madicienne and had... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: September 6th, 2017
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Because of the Labor Day holiday, I had a long weekend and got a lot done. :-) Although there was some straight-up writing involved, the majority of work I did over the three day period consisted of editing at least... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: November 8th, 2017
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! As I mentioned last week, we had a heavy storm hit my neck of the woods where I live in Maine a few days before Halloween, which has now been dubbed posthumously as a ‘bomb cyclone’. We lost a dead... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: November 15th, 2017
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! This week has been alternately exhilarating and frustrating. It’s been great to have my website done, and after its launch only a few minor things came to light (likely unnoticed by anyone but me) that were easy to fix. I... Continue Reading →
Cretaceous Queen, Chapter One: Extinction Event
Chapter One: Extinction Event Katie skidded to a halt in her low top sneakers. Gasping in exhaustion and shock, she surveyed a traffic jam of hastily abandoned cars. She caught her breath and found no persons living or dead amid the destruction her eyes beheld. The girl reshoulderd her messenger bag, talking to herself as... Continue Reading →
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