Before I get into this week’s post, I wanted to drop in a quick update about what’s coming up and where I’m going to be. May 27th through May 30th Balticon 50 I don’t have a schedule yet for the panels I’ll be on but, when I find out, I’ll post them here. I do …
Before I get down into today’s post, I wanted to mention that I’ve got a Links page! Yes, There probably should have been one a long time ago. What can I say: (Still learning…) I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write about today. Some weeks, the topics come easy. Other …
When I wrote my first post about writing and music (which you can find here) I thought I had said all that I had to say on the subject. Yeah, right. Simply thinking that I was done should have let me know there was more coming, sometime. Two posts on a topic don’t constitute the …
I don’t have much to say today which may be a good thing. I woke up this morning to find three different stories coming at me from three different places depicting different kinds of ass-hattery and they all had one thing in common. They all revolved around some guy not liking what some woman did. …
What do I know about music? The short answer is: Not a hell of a lot. I know that there are 4 beats to a bar, and I know some chords as related to the guitar and that’s about it. That’s just the nuts and bolts stuff. A conversation about composition gets me in over …
Three days ago was the deadline for submitting my story to Faith Hunter’s* Rogue Mage anthology. I’m happy to say that I got it in ahead of schedule and under the maximum word count. But there were days where I had my doubts. So I thought I’d take an honest look back and try and …
Read more “How a Short Story is Born a.k.a: The Price of Power – What the Heck Happened?”
Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: The Price of Power Due Date: April 1st Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Final Word Count: 7,597 Words Tonight, I sent my story off to the editor. 2 days ahead of schedule!!! BOOYAH!! *Drops Mic and walks offstage …
Read more “Status Update on the Work in Progress- Countdown: Day 2”
Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: The Price of Power Due Date: April 1st Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 7,567 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 3 days Ok, I got feedback from my Beta Readers and…let me digress for a second. I …
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Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: The Price of Power (See, I did say it might change) Due Date: April 1st Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 7,786 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 6 days So, the internet died yesterday. Well, not the …
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Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: Sisters…It’s a working title, subject to change Due Date: April 1st Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 7,690 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 8 days I missed the Day 9 update. I’d been working on this at …
Read more “Status Update on the Work in Progress- Countdown: Day 8”