Hooray for me. I finished editing on my novelette. Now I need to do a proof read to see that I haven't added in any new issues or spelling/grammar mistakes. And then I'll try sending it out again to the handful of markets that accept that most awkward of short fiction lengths. If I'm honest… Continue reading Novelette editing pass done
Category: Writing
More progress
Bit by bit I'm inching closer to completing edits on my novelette. Just 20 MS pages left to go. And then after that, there are all the other things for me to get started on. I really need an extra day in the week. Preferably it would be one where I could just write.… Continue reading More progress
Snippet in place of an update
So it was a crazy weekend around here. And I mades some progress in editing, but not much. I also had a post I started to draft on Walter White and Frank Underwood, but life doesn't much care for my plans. In place of any other update, here's a snippet from an older work. “Higher.… Continue reading Snippet in place of an update
Slick opening line
"Ray Morgan was driving too fast on the icy road when he died for the first time."
Writing Progress
Made some good progress editing my novelette "Failure of Flesh" tonight. Only 50 manuscript pages left to go. Snippet: "Wild Bear, chieftain of the people of Cold Lake, felt every one of his fifty-three years burning in his chest as he sucked in gasp after gasp of frigid air. Blood’s coppery taste filled his mouth, and… Continue reading Writing Progress
Day 23: Writing Progress
I was able to sit down today and spend time editing a story today; a novelette that got me honourable mention in the Writers of the Future contest a few years back. I trimmed a lengthy opening down by pages and pages to get things rolling along faster. If I make enough trims, I might… Continue reading Day 23: Writing Progress
Writing Anticipation
Tomorrow is a statutory holiday here in Canada on account of this: two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy And so I get to not go work, try… Continue reading Writing Anticipation
Snippet: Live with your past
blast tore through the fighter. Alarms wailed to life. The master-systems monitor lit up red on almost all of the plane’s systems. Smoke poured from the instrument panel. Max lost the feeling of Sally’s presence in the helmet. “Sally?” No response. “Sally?!” <Critical damage, Max. Targeting systems offline, avionics offline, structural integrity failing. Damage to… Continue reading Snippet: Live with your past
Music for writing
Do you write to music? If so what do you like when putting the hammer to anvil and smithing words? Something loud or soft, vocal or not? On whole, I like non-vocal music, and most often pieces from soundtracks. Since they're cinematic, they fit the mood I'm trying to put myself in. What genre I'm… Continue reading Music for writing
Snippet: Our Kind
“Father sent me to help you.” Her mother straightened up, putting her hands on her back. “Were you pestering him again?” “No.” “Come stack the plates, please, Mayna.” “Yes, mother.” Mayna took the plates her mother had finished with and stacked them on the shelves. At seven she was already taller than most of the… Continue reading Snippet: Our Kind
Dispatches from Obscurity 