Category Archives: Science Fiction

More progress

Over 17,000 words now. Words are starting to flow. The story skeleton is holding together. I’ve got the first several chapters done, although I’m not yet sure how I’m going to break the scenes into chapters. The dual story line … Continue reading

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Topped 15,000 words on Mountain Home

15,668 to be exact. Still not up to 1,000 per day, but getting closer. Tomorrow I should be able to spend some real time “writing.” But I may have to use that on formatting Warlord for print, and changing the … Continue reading

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Moving forward

Over 13,000 words. Not quite a thousand words tonight, but still making progress. I feel like I’ve got the story to the point that I can follow the outline and write scenes one after another. Now it’s just a matter … Continue reading

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Significant milestone on “Mountain Home.”

I hit 10,000 words tonight. That’s probably less than a tenth of the final word count of a sci-fi book, but it’s significant. I wrote over 2,500 of those words tonight. And they’re pretty good words. I am starting to … Continue reading

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My new “WIP” or Work In Progress

You hear authors talk a lot about their “WIP” which is shorthand for “Work in Progress” and describes that story out of the hundreds floating around in various stages of incompletion which the author currently considers to be the one … Continue reading

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A surprising revelation…

For as long as I can remember I have had a negative reaction to what I consider to be elitist attitudes and cultural snobbery. For example, people who love to snark on William Shatner, or who turn their noses up … Continue reading

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It’s official! I am a member of the SFWA! #amwriting #scifi

I am quite pleased to announce that my application for membership in the Science Fiction Writers of America has been approved. I’m quite stoked by this. I had set this as a major goal when I decided to be a … Continue reading

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Applied for my SFWA membership today!

Based on payments of over $3,000 on Warrior (actually I’ve made significantly more than that, but $3,000 is the amount required to be a member), they should accept my membership request. I’ll let you all know when I hear back. … Continue reading

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Sad Puppies Affair

This year the Hugos have been rocked with political conflict. There is so much trash talk flying around about the situation that it is probably impossible to make any comment without making one or both sides angry. In spite of … Continue reading

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