I'm chomping at the bit to start my MBA courses. I've roamed around the student website, I have printed the study guide, I put it all in a pretty binder and read it over (a few times). NOW IF MY TEXTBOOK WOULD JUST GET HERE, I could get started. Meanwhile, I hadn't really given any thought to the pace that I'm going to give to my studies until this ( Read more... )

In case you didn't see it on Facebook, my story, The Taterific Tale of Coral Beach, was accepted for the Attack! of the B-Movie Monsters anthology by Grinning Skull Press. I'm excited, but I'm also surprised. I guess I shouldn't be, because it fit the genre they were looking for and, as far as I'm concerned, it's a decent story. But there were a ( Read more... )

It has been a while since I've written anything. Since Easter, to be exact. I finished my potato story, stepped away from the keyboard, and all but forgot about it. I had initially considered revising my potato story, since the deadline had been extended. But after re-reading the end of it, I discovered that there were only a small number of ( Read more... )

I haven't posted anything in a while. In case anyone was wondering, I did finish the potato story on time, but barely. While I had gone over the first 2/3 of the story with a fine-tooth comb, the last part, the most important part, was only edited once. I submitted it that last Thursday night because I knew I would be gone through the following ( Read more... )

The title sounds profound, but it's actually just referring to the potato story. Yes, the potato story is written, not finished, but written. It came in just under 10k words, although I'm hoping to trim at least a little bit off. I have already gone over the first 2/3 to 3/4 of the story several times and fixed it pretty well. I wasn't trying to ( Read more... )

I had said a while back that I was going to put my novel on the back burner while I work on my potato story. I have done that, and while I'm still not finishing at lightning speed, I'm making good progress. I got the first roughly two thirds of it written fairly quickly (for me), then I slowed down quite a bit over the last week. But I still made ( Read more... )

So, I finished writing segment one of Soul Stone. Is it perfect? No. Will it need more work? Of course! Am I going to have to make some painful changes that will cause me to rip out beloved scenes and dialogue? Probably. But all in all, it's good, right? I'm happy with it, right? Right ( Read more... )

I have made significant progress on my novel over the last four days, which I think is a record for me so far. I'm pretty pleased with the progress. And while I was at it, I reached a benchmark. I finished the first of three segments and I'm ready to move on to the second. This basically means I get to start on a new story that is tied to the first ( Read more... )

I have been making slower progress on my novel than I had hoped, but it is progress nonetheless. I have a new challenge, though. I really want to write my short story for the B-horror anthology, but everytime I feel like writing, I force myself to work on my novel for a while, promising myself that I can work on my short story when I reach my daily ( Read more... )

I had made a decision to start over with my writing goals for Soul Stone in an effort to gain a second wind. However, my second wind turned out to be more like a gentle breeze. I wrote that first day and almost, but not quite, reached my goal. I didn't write at all the next day. The day after that, I wrote but still didn't quite reach my goal. Then ( Read more... )