In the next few days, I’m going to unpublish my short story “Payday.” It will still be available in the collection In Times Such As These, but I think it’s about time that its run as a free short story single should come to a close. (For those of you who may not be familiar… Continue reading Unpublishing “Payday”
Category: Short Stories
NaNoWriMo 2021: Day Four
Words Written Today: 2,206 Children of the Starry Sea: 0 “In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight”: 2,206 Science Fiction from A to Z: 0 Total Words Written: 8,595 Total Words Remaining: 41,405 Total Words Ahead: 1,927 Really fun scene today in my short story “In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight,” which is quickly turning into… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2021: Day Four
NaNoWriMo 2021: Day One
Words Written Today: 2,022 Children of the Starry Sea: 1,010 “Lord of the Slaves” author’s note: 1,012 Total Words Written: 2,022 Total Words Remaining: 47,978 Total Words Ahead: 335 I was going to do the same thing with nanowrimo this year that I did last year, and turn out 50k words of short stories, but… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2021: Day One
Navigating Woke SF, Part 4: Götterdämmerung
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation today, after his sexual harrassment scandal that has seen an overwhelming number of women come forward. As tempted as I am to dive into the politics of this story, I bring it up only to provide context for this: Yeah, I’m cringing too. For the last several years—arguably, since… Continue reading Navigating Woke SF, Part 4: Götterdämmerung
Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Thirty One
Words written today: 2,521 Total stories written: 5 Total SF-AZ chapters written: 1 Total words written: 30,461 It’s done! I finished Camp NaNoWriMo strong, achieving my goal of 30,000 words. Didn’t finish the last story, but it’s going quite strong, and probably past the halfway point. I’ll probably finish the rough draft next month and… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Thirty One
Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Twenty Six
Words written: 1,569 Total stories written: 4 Total words written: 21,280 Total words remaining: 8,720 Total words behind: 3,888 It’s been a while since the last nanowrimo update, hasn’t it? Don’t worry, I’m not ghosting it like I did for Camp NaNoWriMo in April! In fact, I’ve been catching up this whole time—just haven’t been… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Twenty Six
Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Nineteen
Words written: 957 Total stories written: 2 Total words written: 13,223 Total words remaining: 16,777 Total words behind: 5,169 Finished that story, finally! It’s actually not that bad. Working title is “In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight.” It’s 8.5k words, which is about 3k-4k more words than it should be, but with a bit of… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Nineteen
Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Five
Words written: 1,105 Total stories written: 1 Total words written: 3,880 Total words remaining: 26,120 Total words behind: 960 Way, way, way too busy today. So many chores, so much time doing babycare, so much other insanity. I have no idea how people play video games and get anything done. They must not have children.… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Five
Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Three
Words written: 1,778 Total stories written: 1 Total words written: 2,775 Total words remaining: 27,225 Total words behind: 129 Made good progress today. I’m still a bit behind where I should be, but not by very much. It’s a lot easier to write 30k words in a month than 50k words. Maybe I’ll make the… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Three
Navigating Woke SF, Part 3: Toward a New Short Story Strategy
So I really love how China Mike Glyer cherry-picked the excerpts that he quoted from my last blog post, leaving out how I said that it’s important to give people the benefit of the doubt, or how you can’t take diversity statements at face value because of all the elitist signalling language. But the thing… Continue reading Navigating Woke SF, Part 3: Toward a New Short Story Strategy