So, yeah, I just stuck an END at the bottom of a story code-named "Mars is a hobo," which I began this morning and completed tonight. It's a draft, and it's short (2264 words), but I free-wrote an outline for it last night after getting a prompt from the handsome and hard-working Jon del Arroz when I told him the original Thing I was working on ( Read more... )

I started and finished the first draft of a 1500-word story tonight after a trio of word sprints. It's a very rough draft--the characters still need names, the descriptions aren't what they should be, and the action is rather choppy--and it still needs a title, but...

This is the most writing I've done in awhile.

Feels good, man.

Of course, the thing doesn't have a title yet, and it came out almost 800 words longer than the guidelines called for. However, nearly 6000 words since Tuesday night is nothing to sneeze at, and I am well pleased by my output.

I shall see if I'm actually well pleased by the story itself when I poke through it later. I feel like I may have rushed ( Read more... )

I've been doing this a bit lately, what with the END at the bottom of the sequel to Pack Dynamics, and now one at the bottom of a (hopefully) humorous secondary-world fantasy short starring a pair of hapless friends and a two-headed dragon, with not a werewolf in sight. I know, I know, try not to die of shock. We'll code-name it "dragon treasure ( Read more... )

Well, would you look at that.

I just stuck an END at the bottom of the short I want to submit to Lawless Lands. It's a weird western with werewolves, aliens, prehensile-tailed monkey clowns, and a circus. I am well pleased with it, though it's going to take a heavy polish before it's ready to go out the door. It's sitting at just under 4800 words ( Read more... )

I've been bashing my head against this story for awhile. It's basically Big Bad John in space with werewolves, because that's how I roll, and the more I listen to that and the sequel song, the more I think that John could have by-golly been a werewolf, because he was preternaturally strong and also survived a mine collapse, so, uh ( Read more... )

Sit down with the stories I haven't completed and figure out where they're going and why I haven't finished them. I have at least three on the front burner and Lord knows how many on the back burner. If I can finish most--or just some--of them this year, it'll be a very good year indeed. I need to stick them all in one folder and see just how many ( Read more... )

I have stuck an END at the bottom of my Werewolf in Space story. It's still rougher than rough and starts in the exact wrong place and is also far longer than the six thousand words I'm allowed for the Thing I wrote it for, but the first draft is Done.

Also, that's two 2100-word days in a row.

Huzzah!

I have just stuck an END at the bottom of the first draft of a new story, code-named "Vampire Romeo&Juliet." Three days at a NaNo pace, 5360 words, go, me.

I'm not quite on pace for what I wanted on the year, because the novels haven't been happening, but that's my second short in two months and it should be done by the end of February and out the

I started writing this story at 1pm. I put an END at the bottom of it at 3:15pm. 1127 words, which is way more than the 750-word limit for the competition I wrote it for, but. I have a new Thing which I can now tinker into something awesome. I may hacksaw it for the competition and expand it for subbing. We'll see what I think once I've let it ( Read more... )