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Story Nineteen and Some Updates on Challenge
DAY NINETEEN… Turned out to be a fun day today. Most of you don’t know we are having a coast workshop here right now. Fifteen professional writers working with Kris on science fiction. I get to just sort of drift around the edges and talk to them when they appear. Tonight I got to help Kris with a fun assignment. She can really come up with some amazing stuff, as many of you have noted about the assignments in some of the online workshops. (grin) Also, got three people signing up for the short story challenge with me being a first reader. Two for May, one for June. I’m excited about…
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Quick Update to Short Story Challenge
Simple Update and Information… There are two start dates on this. May 2nd as I said originally and June 1st. It means I will be reading stories through July (If anyone decides to take me up on this) but that is fine. Both are 60 day windows to do the challenge. Another note: I will be done with my short story challenge by the first of May and will be starting into writing novels. So I will not be writing short stories at the same time as reading them. Sign Up Information: If you are thinking about this seriously, and think you can write 30 short stories either in one…
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I Opened My Mouth… So Here Is How It Could Work
A CHALLENGE… A few nights ago I mentioned that if anyone wanted to take up a story-a-day for thirty days, I could be their first reader for a price. Yup, said that. Now I understand how really difficult on so many levels this challenge is. This is the second time I have done it and over the years hope to do one in every month of the year. Over different years, of course. Like the first one was in July and got the book Stories from July. This one will be a book called Stories from April. The stories will also be in Smith’s Monthly, in collections, and published stand-alone.…
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Story Seventeen
DAY SEVENTEEN… By the time I got through everything today and the workshop assignments tonight, it was 3 a.m. I really got to start earlier. So off I went to my half-title sheets. I grabbed a half tile “A Thief…” and then almost instantly saw another half title. “of Regrets.” I put that in the title spot “A Thief of Regrets” and instantly put “A Bryant Street Story” under it because it sounded like a Bryant Street kind of title. But after the first line I changed the subtitle to “A Marble Grant Story” and got going. 3:35 a.m. I took a break at 900 words. 4:10 I took another…
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Filler Tonight
Day 1,257… Not doing a full post tonight because I have spent the entire day either reading or on this computer and my eye needs a rest. But it was a fun day and a good one. And had to keep the blogging streak alive. (grin) Can’t break it after 1,257 days. Starting tomorrow (March 1st) I will be back posting full blogs with all the data. You remember… it looks like this… I got a lot of writing I want to do in March, so should be fun to track. Tracking Running… March 1st, 2017 — miles. No running. Weight 193. Month to date distance: — miles ————– Tracking Word Counts… March…
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Time to Rest… Blast from the Past
All Good Intentions… I spent all day in meetings, then working at my computer at work doing workshop stuff, then home at this computer and then reading. I rested my eye regularly, but still too tired in the eye to write much tonight or read much more. So the planned blog is replaced by this placeholder so I can keep my streak alive. Maybe tomorrow. In the meantime, how about a blast from the past on this Thursday? In this picture from the 1960 World Science Fiction Convention taken by Jay Kay Klein, Ron Ellik, Randall Garrett, Mark Irwin, Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, Dirce Archer, and James Blish watch BJo…
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Another Short Placeholder Streak Blog
Got the estate house done… Did a mass of workshop stuff off and on all day. Off to sleep now…
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Saturday Night Again
I worked on workshop stuff, watched a bunch of television, wrote a bunch of words, and had a good day. And that, my dear friends, makes this a filler post to keep the streak of posting every day alive. Back tomorrow night with some more questions from the discussion started last week about why modern writers are such wimps. Night.
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A Second Filler Post
The drive from Redding, California, over the mountains and down into the valley with Portland, Salen, Eugene Oregon was fine. But from there it got sort of tricky. Hitting with 70 mph winds tonight here on the coast and nasty rain. I came in over the coast range through it. Tiring drive. White snow along the road, heavy fog, hard rain, and wind. Places I couldn’t see anything, let alone the road. Not fun. But I made it. So I managed to get the workshop assignments done tonight and will be back at everything full tomorrow and will do a wrap-up on the travel book here. But tonight the power is…
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A Filler Post
I’ll write the prolog chapter on the nonfiction book after I get home tomorrow night. Right now I just got off the road and am sitting in a suite in Reddding, CA. (Yes, drove from Vegas today.) I want to be up moderately early tomorrow to get over the mountains between here and Oregon before the next storm hits. I have chains but I really don’t want to use them. So tomorrow night I will write the epilog chapter about the entire writing process on the road. It will make more sense tomorrow anyway. (grin) Night…