Before I go into my year-end statistics overview, a happy announcement. I had two stories go live last month,
“Tumbleweeds and Highways” was published in Clean Sheets.
“Web of Death” was published in MicroHorror.
I also finished the month on 100 Words which you can read at Val Gryphin’s December Batch.
Go check them out and if you have [...] Read more »

The first full revision of Moving on Nightfall is done! The last 30 pages were aaaaaagonizing. Onto the next revision, it has been a while since I saw the beginning of the book, (like several months) so I am comfortible with jumping back to the beginning and going from there. I’m sure it will go [...] Read more »

A nasty combo of the flu, returning to work for close to full time for the first time since the wreck, and a fairly major depressive episode managed to neatly take me 1-2-3 out of pretty much everything, including writing and blogging. But I am slowly crawling back to full speed, although it might take [...] Read more »

In the beginning of Moving on Nightfall, the protagonist, Jenny, is revealed to be a homeless, transgendered, late-teens prostitute. While I didn’t need to do a lot of research to develop her character or her living situation, I did do some research to make sure that I could give the readers a firm grasp on [...] Read more »

Generally I don’t do a lot of research before I write a story or novel. I prefer to write with the flow and see how things go, and then research and clarify as needed. If there is something I question, or need to know to make the story work, of course I’ll look it up [...] Read more »

I’m on the down stretch of the first major revision of Moving on Nightfall. I think the last 40 pages need to be expanded a bit, as when I got near to finishing my rough draft I just wanted to get it down. Plus, now that I know how it ends, I have to smooth [...] Read more »

I’ve known quite a few writers who feel like outlining their short story or novel is the best and more efferent way to get their writing done. Often they also like to do character sketches either before or during the writing process because they feel like this helps them to fully understand their protagonists and [...] Read more »