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
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Camp NaNoWriMo: Day One
Words written: 997 Stories written: 0 Total words written: 997 Total words remaining: 29,003 Total words ahead: 29 So after moving into my in-laws’ house to house-sit for them while they’re gone for the next 18 months, and hosting a ton of family in June when they came through for summer vacation, I’ve decided to… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo: Day One
A letter to my 2019 self from my 2020 self
First off, before you read anything else in this letter, go and buy the following items: A couple hundred N95 masks. A box of 100 buckshot shells. A Costco sized jar of vitamin C. A Costco sized jar of vitamin D3 (50 micrograms). Got that? Okay, good. Second, don’t panic. You are (mostly) already prepared… Continue reading A letter to my 2019 self from my 2020 self
NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Six
Words written: 2,682 Total words written: 39,545 Stories written: 6 Character interviews written: 4 Total words behind: 3,788 Catching up! Slowly, but surely. We’re in the home stretch now, and with just over 10k words to go, I think I may actually be able to pull this off. It’s gonna be close, but I may… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twenty-Six
NaNoWriMo 2020 Plans
It’s been a long, long time since I attempted to do NaNoWriMo. Usually, I have something else on my writing schedule which prevents me from taking off a month for another project. I think my last NaNoWriMo attempt was in 2013, but even then I was juggling that with another WIP, and the WIP won… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020 Plans
2019-11-07 Newsletter Author’s Note
This author’s note originally appeared in the November 7th edition of my author newsletter. To subscribe to my newsletter, click here. One of the things I’ve come to really love about married life is reading in bed with Mrs. Vasicek. Right now, I’m finishing House of Assassins by Larry Correia, and she’s reading the Westmark… Continue reading 2019-11-07 Newsletter Author’s Note
Rethinking the blog
It seems that I’m constantly in a state of retooling my writing career, moving from one area to the next a bit like construction projects at a university campus. And every time that I start to retool something else, the blog gets neglected. Well, it’s time to retool the blog. A couple of months ago,… Continue reading Rethinking the blog
A quick update
If life had a crazy-meter, the needle on mine would be somewhere in the yellow green right now and trending toward the red. Next week, Future Mrs. Vasicek and I will be traveling to Iowa for my nephew’s baptism. It’s going to be a big family affair. Future Mrs. Vasicek has met everyone already, minus… Continue reading A quick update
Plans for My Personal Home Library
If everyone has a weird or quirky super power, mine is the ability to acquire books. Even when I was living out of a suitcase in a remote Caucasian village, or traipsing across the Middle East, I was constantly acquiring books. With my marriage to Future Mrs. Vasicek coming up, I’ve decided to put this… Continue reading Plans for My Personal Home Library
A Path to Self-Sufficiency
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Self-Sufficient Writer post, but I think I’d like to bring that series back, with the goal of turning it into a book eventually. There’s a lot of interesting stuff I’ve learned that would make good content for that blog series, and I still have a lot to… Continue reading A Path to Self-Sufficiency