• Challenge,  workshops

    Watched the Half-Marathon Runners…

    …Go Past Our Building… If felt right not being with them. I respect that distance and will train correctly for it next year. So watching them some was incentive. It is now past 4 am and I have been at this computer far too long for my arm, so going to just remind you all about the new ART OF THE NVELLA classes on wmgwriterstore.com Here is all that information again: ART OF THE NOVELLA series is 4 different classes limited to 20 writers each one. 9 weeks of weekly classes with assignments, then four weeks to write a novella in that genre with what you have learned. Three months…

  • Challenge,  On Writing

    Story Tonight Was Novella

    Seven Stories plus Transitions and Fillers… I spent all evening doing this, making sure information was not repeated too badly from story to story, lining it all up as 19 chapters, adding transition to keep the main story line moving through it all. Seven stories are the core. I wrote almost 3,000 new words tonight, more than equal to a short story. So counting this novella called BIG EYES as my story for the night. It will be the lead story in Smith’s Monthly #58 which will be on Patreon and out to subscribers in a week or so. Plus next week it will be part of a cat bundle.…