Lotta stuff's been happening, some of which may get posts as time/energy allows, but for now I'm just popping in to say...

"Dix Dayton and the Miner From Mars" will be in the Jan/Feb 2022 issue of Analog, available in mid December!

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I just finished a 2500-word story.

In two days.

This is, if not unprecedented for me, certainly damned unusual. That's half a month's output, by my typical standard! And even when I've written that many words, I don't think I've ever finished an entire work that quickly.

It still needs a title; yeah, this is that definition of "finished". But it's ( Read more... )

The "creepy fae thing" (a.k.a. "Going Home") is now in the hands of my alpha reader.

Writing challenge: Write what basically amounts to a 1500-word torture scene without overusing the word "pain" to the point that it ceases to have any meaning.

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Thank goodness I've been better about writing than I have about tracking wordcounts here. Not that that's a high bar to get over. ;-) So, giant round-up post:

August = 1179 words, all on Green Ring

September 2020 = 777 words, all on Green Ring

October = 173 words, on various shorts (and incl. Street Magic, which is getting lumped in with the short ( Read more... )

Oh, this sounds fun. 25 days of writing. Usually when I look at memes like this I don't really relate to a large chunk of the questions, but in this case I think I have something to say on all of them. Of course, this is me, so I'm finding out about the thing when it's halfway through (though apparently it wasn't originally an X-days thing?), ( Read more... )

I'm delighted to be able to announce that "Dix Dayton and the Miner From Mars" has been accepted by Analog!

This is the sequel to "Dix Dayton, Jet Jockey" which appeared in Analog's March/April 2020 issue.

/*cue happy dance*/

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June:

original short fiction = 3871

July:

original short fiction = 4172

That includes the rest of DDJJ2 ("Dix Dayton and the Miner from Mars"), "Dear Ones" (which is now going as "A Fine Warm Tale On A Winter's Night"), and "Hands On", as well as bits and pieces of other things. Technically June includes 296 words of Street Magic, which is a novel, ( Read more... )

I sold another story! I'm delighted to announce that "Hands On" will be appearing in the We're The Weird Aliens" Anthology.

Woot!

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Wow has it been a long time since I've done one of these. Mostly because there hasn't been much to report.

But, April had writing in it!

Total new words in April (all short fiction): 3683 words

Not bad! (That's most of "Observer Effect"/Uplink and all of "Bridesmaid From Heck", in case future-me wants to know.) Both were written to market ( Read more... )

It's like it's a real story. ;-)

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