Category: Outworld Trilogy

Toward a new writing technique

For the last year, I’ve been struggling to write this novel (Children of the Starry Sea, Book 2 of the Outworld Trilogy) according to my new novel writing method, which I’ve been developing since about 2017. The method involves creating a rigorous scene-by-scene outline and cycling through each scene multiple times, so that you basically… Continue reading Toward a new writing technique

Rethinking some things

So I had an extremely vivid dream last Friday night where I got cancer and learned that I had only a month to live. Among other things, I found myself asking: “What am I going to do about my writing career? Who is going to finish all these books? Are they going to fade into… Continue reading Rethinking some things

Bowing Out

Back at the end of August, I blogged about how I was going to do a writing challenge in September to produce more short stories to fill out my publishing queue. At the time, I had a couple of stories that looked like they were going to be picked up by one of the major… Continue reading Bowing Out

New Short Story Writing Challenge

I self-publish a new short story every month, and I try to keep at least six in the hole so that I have some time to send each one to the magazines and anthologies. Right now, I’ve only got three, soon to be two, so I need to write some short stories. Sounds like it’s… Continue reading New Short Story Writing Challenge

NaNoWriMo 2021: Day Eight

Words Written Today: 2,047 Children of the Starry Sea: 459 “In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight”: 1,588 Science Fiction from A to Z: 0 Total Words Written: 13,040 Total Words Remaining: 36,960 Total Words Behind: 296 No writing on Sunday. I generally don’t write on Sundays, so I didn’t bother giving a progress update either.… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2021: Day Eight

2019-08-15 Newsletter Author’s Note

This author’s note originally appeared in the August 15th edition of my author newsletter. To sign up for my newsletter, click here. It was not an easy decision to enroll all of my Star Wanderers books into Kindle Unlimited. For years, this was my flagship series, not only on Amazon but on all platforms. Enrolling… Continue reading 2019-08-15 Newsletter Author’s Note

January Recap

It’s been a busy, busy month. I finished a major WIP, published a new bundle, started a new job at the local bookstore, and made a bunch of changes and adjustments behind the scenes. And that’s just my writing life! First, I published a new Star Wanderers bundle, containing the complete series. This replaces The… Continue reading January Recap