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Work on The Big Snow goes along like gangbusters, with 17,000 words in for the month, including an authentic 2000 word day - the first I've had in a long time.   As a result, I have clawed back most of my annual shortfall from January, and should be in positive numbers shortly ( Read more... )

January got off to a waddling start, with only about 5100 words in.   Partly this was due to year-end paperwork, but much of it probably has to do with coming down after the year end rush to push my word count as high as possible.   Looking back, I see this has been a fairly consistent occurrance over the years.   This too shall pass ( Read more... )

Well: 2015 AD had too much hoiliday cheer, plowed head-on into 2016, was rear-ended in turn by December, with the whole shebang coming to a grinding halt right on top of 12:00 midnight.   What a mess!  And folks wonder why I don't go out on the holidays ( Read more... )

I am pleased to report that I have made my annual self-imposed quota of 150,000 words, with four days to go.  This has been a perplexing year at times - dragging way behind at first - rocketing ahead over the summer - and slowing again as the year end approaches.   To the good, I got another YA demi-novel out, and the last of the MacKenna trilogy ( Read more... )

November went pretty slow, especially compared to the rapid progress of the last few months.   It started out with several days' work to get the various downloadable versions of 'Star Flight' ready and fill in the ISBN registry at Bowker.   Then came Orycon, and the aftermath (more on that presently), followed by web site updates ( Read more... )

Things went along swimmingly last month (thus spaketh the captain of the Titanic).   'Star Flight is finished and ready to go, waiting only on cover art which is due Tuesday.   With a bit of luck I can still have it in time for Orycon.   My new project is 'MacKenna: A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows' - last of the MacKenna trilogy and conclusion of ( Read more... )

I am pleased to report that 'Star Flight', my second YA demi-novel, is complete at 65,400 words.   The only thing holding it back now is the cover art, which hopefully will arrive by the first of the month.   In the mean time I am putting together the download versions and starting the first tentative work on 'MacKenna: A Knight Of Ghosts And ( Read more... )

Things went along well in September, with some 18,600 words into 'Star Flight'.   Unfortunately mundania intervened in the last few days, so 'Star Flight' is almost but not quite done.   As of today there is one chapter to complete - 2500 words, plus editing (which goes fairly fast.   We're still looking good for mid-October for release ( Read more... )

August turned out to be a pretty fair month, despite turning another year older.   Word count was 18,300 - not as good as July, but well above my nominal quota.   As a result, my 21,600 word defecit from the end of June has been whittled down to only 3300 words - and I'll have that cleared this month ( Read more... )