Finally got the first few words down on the short story I planned to work on at the end of last year. Went back and forth on setting (science fiction versus fantasy), which influenced how much information I would present about the main character's differences (autistic ( Read more... )

Another highlight from yesterday's yard work (beyond the muse trashing the current book outline) was the work she put into examining flash fiction ideas for the New Scientist contest and her determination to have me write a story about an autistic boy and zeppelins ( Read more... )

I wanted to start today's post starts with a snippet from Sacrifices / Into Dust Descend, but nothing I wrote last night or this morning was simple enough for me to extract ( Read more... )

One of the things I've learned during the last 14-15 years is that my when writing works, when my muse has the bit between her teeth, elements of a story seem to fall into place with relative ease ( Read more... )

We were just debating the plural of apocalypse here in the office ...

The sky is darkening this morning with the approach of the thunderstorms forecast for yesterday. We're located right next to a medical supply office, so I noted to my cube neighbor that we'd be OK in case of an apocalypse.

I went on to note that we'd be safe in the case of a ( Read more... )

Revisions to the prologue for Sacrifices is done. I've taken into account UWG critiques, both on this manuscript and on Only The Dead, and I think I've got a handle on some of my problems with plotting and character motivation ( Read more... )

For the past week or two I've sent daily entries to win the HGTV 2010 Dream House that's located in San Pedro Overlook, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. retrobabble posted the link on Twitter, and I've followed through on a lark ( Read more... )

Muse is a strange mood last night. I dreamed there was some sort of explosion at Coney Island. Not quite nuclear; more science fiction related, as the Ferris wheel was gone and the place where it stood was a perfectly spherical hole in the ground. As if the bottom half of some singularity had exploded or imploded or some such ( Read more... )