I am super pleased to announce that the novelette known in these parts as "Eldritch Plumbing" has found a home with Stupefying Stories. Basically, some dude decides it will be a good idea to call up some baby Old Ones through the plumbing of a retirement community. And then Mama gets involved ( Read more... )

I've ginned up a sub packet for Eldritch Plumbing, and it will be out the door tomorrow to a snail mail market. This puts my submittable wordcount on the year so far at 62,300. I finished (for certain values of "finishing") Ghost Ship last night, and gave it to my Writing Buddy today. I don't hate it, and if all goes well it will add another 7500 ( Read more... )

And he gave me a few suggestions for Unquiet Neighbors. Of course, all of them make the story longer, and it's already over 11,000 words. That being said, the fact that it's over 10K means that 11K isn't really that much harder of a sell, so. *shrug* It's just little lines here and there, a tiny try/fail cycle in that other place, a line about how ( Read more... )

This puts me at 42,500 completed, submittable words in the first three months of the year.

Understand that I wrote 36,200 completed, submittable words in all of 2012. And ZERO in 2011 ( Read more... )

I've incorporated the crit I got for Unquiet Neighbors. It still needs a title, so I'll sleep on that. I gave it to my Writing Buddy tonight, and I guess I'll wait a week and see what he says about it. But that one is thisclose to being done and ready to sub. Unfortunately, it's also over 11,000 words, so markets will be thin. Bah. But, you know. ( Read more... )

And there is something wrong with it, but I can't put my finger on what. It's dialogue-heavy, but... I think that's okay, really. Maybe it's because there's not a whole lot of there there in between the dialogue. Blech.

I've also reformatted the Bear Story into a plain text doc for submission to this antho, seeing as they take simsubs and the ( Read more... )

at the bottom of my eldritch plumbing story. The count came in at 8700. *dies*

Whether I will do anything with Zombunnies today is an open question. I certainly don't have to, because I've got Wednesday's goal in the can. But I might anyway. I'll certainly have a look at the outline and see what I think ( Read more... )

I have blown past the midpoint and am now sitting at 26,200 words so far, which gives me 2900 words on my day--and which means I'll probably go for that extra hundred after I finish this entry just because. I revised my "Ideal Goal" down to 2000 words per day, because that's actually hittable and I'd rather encourage myself with something I can ( Read more... )

To booze or not to booze: that is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous fiction,
or to take rum against a sea of ridiculous baby tentacle monsters,
and by imbibing, end them?

Yes, I am writing this thing sober because drinking alone is a bad habit and I'm not going to do it.

That being said, ( Read more... )

It just occurred to me that my trailer park manager should be a lot less sanguine and a lot more skeptical about the new guy coming to his office and telling him that an octopusthing (that's totally a word, shut up) attacked his wife through the toilet ( Read more... )