Fiction River: Spies
Hi everybody. I’ve got some exciting news. No, I’m not actually going to recommence posting on a regular basis like I promised in the past, to at least get the podcast episodes caught up. Well, I am. Promise. But no, …
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Oregon Coast Anthology Workshop
I did not post here much in February. Nor did I write much of anything in February. Why? Well, as you will recall from my January posts, I was writing a story per week for the Anthology Workshop up in …
Yeah, I Need Deadlines
Next month, I’m attending the annual Anthology Workshop that Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch put on each February in Oregon. Basic premise of the workshop is they have several editors attending, and the writers are given assignments to …
Deployment Reading
I’ve been getting a lot of reading done on this deployment. By reading, I mean both reading reading and audiobook listening. They both count, because hey it’s the ingestion of books, right? Right. I haven’t gotten as much writing done …
Marketing and Pricing
I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’m presenting my stories, from a marketing and pricing perspective, and I’ve decided to make a few changes. First, let’s talk Pericles. I’ve been wondering for a while whether I chose correctly about …
2013 Writing Goal – Week 14
Came close this week. Observe: Of course, close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear weapons. But in this case I got 5,520 word written instead of 7,500. That’s still pretty decent. You’ll note from the graph that I …
Silence Like A Cancer Grows…
Yeah, I’m feeling a little bit saucy. Hence the play on Simon and Garfunkel in the title of this post. It’s been a while since I last posted anything. And a lot’s happened in the interim. So why haven’t I …
Catchup
Wow, talk about a crazy couple weeks. I’ve been jaunting all over the country, writing, searching for housing, listening to feedback, getting a tan… And I never tan. You want to talk about instant-lobster, that’s me. But somehow this week …
Travel Time
Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I fly out to Oregon for Dean and Kris‘ Character Voice and Setting Workshop. It runs from Saturday afternoon through the following Saturday, and I’m pretty much certain I won’t have any time to update …
Why Do You Have To Quit Your Day Job?
Seriously, why? I didn’t think about it before, but in the last week or so I’ve begun asking this question. First I encountered a Kindleboards thread asking how many on the forum had quit their day jobs to write full time. …