Issue Zero… I was still up at the WMG offices working on Issue Zero of Pulphouse after one a.m. for the second night in a row. Just too much strain on my eyes to not give them some rest after that. So no writing on a short story tonight. I started to, but after forty minutes I had a great novel start and I just tossed in the towel for the night. ANTHOLOGY WORKSHOP Folks, first anthology assignment is now out through the e-mail group. Happy writing.   My short story challenge so far since the 10th of the month. So far, here is the November Short Story Challenge. (10th…

Worked On Pulphouse Issue Zero… I was still up at the WMG offices working on Issue Zero of Pulphouse after one a.m. Came home then, watched a little television, and then wrote letters to everyone who backed the Pulphouse Kickstarter with a workshop or lecture. It’s a little after 6 a.m. right now and I just finished that. Issue Zero should be out by December 1st. It’s looking great. And some amazing stories in it. ANTHOLOGY WORKSHOP Folks, if you think you are attending the anthology workshop in late February and are not signed up through me and paid, or are not on the group list, you are almost too…

Two Thunder Mountain Stories in Two Days… Not at all sure why this challenge this time around I am doing stories in streaks. I did five Cold Poker Gang stories, then five Bryant Street stories (actually one was just a story), and now two Thunder Mountain stories. This one is called Profile Gap because I was looking through a book of place names for Idaho and found it and thought it was cool. Profile Gap is actually a fairly wide valley over a ridge in the central Idaho area. Lots of mining in the area, so a logical place for a Thunder Mountain story. Not sure if this one stands…

Yup, Wrote a Thunder Mountain Story… Hope those of you in the States had a good holiday. Kris and I had a perfect one for us this year, since we got really overwhelmed with people last month. We just made it a regular day. I cooked a turkey for our regular dinner time, and it was quiet. Wonderful. I spent hours up at WMG working on workshops and moving parts of the store around, then cooked dinner, then back up to WMG offices for two more hours of the same stuff. Then home to watch a little television, then I got in here after some email to write. Sadly, by…

Ended Up A Novel Start Actually, it will be a middle chapter of a Seeder’s Novel. I saw this half title when I sat down to write tonight and thought, “That would be a cool Seeder’s Universe story.” And I remembered I had a story in Stories from April called “Deal at the End of Time” which worked as a short story, sort of, and I thought those two characters would be fun to do. So I got those two characters, and off I went writing. Took a break after an hour, kept writing, and about 2,500 words in I realized it wasn’t going anywhere fast. And that I had…

Nothing Wrong… Just a planned night away from the writing. I’ve been getting up too early lately and just need to call it a night and get a full eight hours. I actually had this planned from the start tonight. Turned out my timing was spot on. (grin) So I will be back tomorrow night on the short stories. And the report of the day. And yes, here in the States Thursday is a holiday, but I will be writing and working at WMG right on through it. Which is actually what I enjoy doing. Also I will be contacting all the Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Kickstarter workshop folks directly over…

This One Would Not Exist Without the Challenge… Yup, sort of a busy day today, as most Mondays are. I had to get up pretty early for me to be down to our library to meet a guy there who had a collection of 1930s baseball stuff that had come into the library on donation. Program books, magazines, all kinds of misc from 1930s to 1950. In exchange for the collection, I made a very, very good donation to the Friends of the Library. Fair trade. And wow, what a find out of someone’s attic. So after doing workshop stuff, I watched some television with Kris, than sat and watched…

Indie Writers… What a Strange Term… Just for a short time I want to explain why I have been shaking my head for almost ten years now when I hear the term “Indie Writer.” I hate to say it, but I was an indie writer when I sold over a hundred novels to traditional publishing. That’s right. I was an independent writer, with my own business, often selling to three or four or five traditional publishers at the same time. Not counting magazines and anthologies and other stuff. I had my own business as a writer. I was an indie writer. We were just not called indie writers back then.…

Three of the Last Four… And all of them have come in around the same length. I have no idea why that happened. Never usually does. My stories tend to vary all over the map in length. But nine stories done so far and I’m enjoying the process and so far Kris has liked them all, which has shocked me, to be honest. And a couple of them can be novel starts. Today was a pretty standard day. Went to the writer’s lunch at 2 p.m., worked out at the stores for a short time, then back at WMG offices until I headed home to work at home on household…