March was a hard month for fiction writing. I needed to finish a conference paper, which I did. So, I’ll take that as a win. I also traveled for the conference, which threw off my writing routine. When I was writing, it was all world-building. World-building is a fun and dangerous enterprise. This bout of…
Hi all! I continue to work on Ory’s story. This has meant adding some relevant world-building, fleshing out characters, and writing scenes. I found that I was writing too much for the first scene without finishing the scene. So, I’m going to try something I heard on a Savannah Gilbo podcast: I’m going to set…
I just wanted to update you on what I’ve been up to since my last post in November. I’ve been concentrating on Ory’s story: outlining, writing scene summaries, and going back to the outline. I’m at a stage where I have scene summaries for about the length of a novella. That’s about 24 scenes and…
Dear friends, I knew at some point in the fall the school year would catch up with me. That time has come. I have no scheduled posts for the rest of the month. On the upside, I’ve subsequently paused billing for December at my Patreon site to give you access to my longer posts. You’ll…
Why share my works in progress? First off, I want to thank my family and friends for supporting me in this new adventure. My audience may be small, but it helps to know that there are folks out there routing for me and looking forward to my posts. After two months of posts, I think…
Hello from my writing desk! I thought I would tell you about my plan for the “grand opening” in August. We’ll start with some teaser early scenes from what I hope to be novel- or novella-length pieces and one from a short story that I hope to finish this summer and post by the end…
