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 …
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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 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 …
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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 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 …
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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: 11,386 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 10 days Here we go, T-Minus 10 days and counting!!! The Total …
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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 (seriously) Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 12,386 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 11 days Another (roughly) 7000 words gone. I was ruthless today, but …
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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 (seriously) Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 19,453 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 12 days And (with this pass) Done. Not a bad chunk of …
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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 (seriously) Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 20,794 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 13 days Yeah, that’s more like it. Roughly 12,000 more words to shave …
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