November 18th, 2020: I got The Forever Halloween to a completed sixth draft Thursday night, finishing it at almost 10,400 words. This became a seventh draft after my wifeโs proofread and a sweep with an editing tool on Monday. I sent copies out thereafter to a handful of people that were interested in reading it,... Continue Reading →
November 5th to 11th: Harm and Healing
November 11th, 2020: A lot happened over the last week. Nationally, we had an enormous, tense and drawn out election that still isnโt fully resolvedโฆ but is resolved enough that Iโm very happy with one result. ;-) On the personal side of things, my trio of problems from last week are no more: My wife... Continue Reading →
October 22nd to November 4th: The Forever Halloween
October 28th, 2020: Iโm neck-deep into writing a short story, and I must finish it by Saturday! I started last Thursday, and there has been heavy revisions and editing as I goโฆ but the inspiration is flowing. :-) Itโs unfinished at 4,300 words with three of its five planned scenes done or mostly done. Iโm... Continue Reading →
October 15th to 21st: Adventure Seed Time
October 21st, 2020: I finally got the draft done for the Arium Kickstarter commission on Sunday. Working to craft five short adventure seeds was a much bigger challenge than I thought it would be when I signed on to do them back in August. Being assigned the peculiar writing theme of โGonzoโ for open-ended role-playing... Continue Reading →
October 8th to 14th: The Grief Wound
October 14th, 2020: A lot of the past week was spent working through the loss of my friend that happened last Sunday. Wednesday I felt emotionally clear enough to write about our friendship and posted it as a eulogy on Facebook. It reached a lot of mutual friends that didnโt know heโd passed, and some... Continue Reading →
October 1st to 7th: Losing a Friend
October 7th, 2020: 2020 continues to be relentless. On Sunday, a friend with a long history of diabetes and kidney failure died. We hadnโt seen each other in person for a few years, but weโd done a lot together prior to that. We read bad vampire books aloud by his campfire. He was at my... Continue Reading →
Microfiction
Last week, I gave a purely personal update on how I was doing after a long silence. This weekโs check-in is a more nuts and bolts talk about something I write frequently and post a lot of on this blog and elsewhere: Microfiction. Iโve begun a new approach to my weekday microfiction writing. Up to... Continue Reading →
Yes, It Is a Hard Time to Write
Iโve been dealing with a lot since I last posted an authorโs update in the middle of May. Iโve been depressed with all that life has thrown at me at once. Iโve been angry. Iโve lost my motivation, and Iโve regained it. But through it all, I have kept writing. Maybe not much by some... Continue Reading →
That Pearl of Great Price That is America
Captain America, What If? #44. 1984 Listen to me โ all of you out there! You were told by this man โ your hero โ that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people โ that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities... Continue Reading →

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