I'm a new writer of science fiction and adventure tales. I also make occasional forays into fantasy and realistic fiction. I love post-apocalyptic settings, utopias and dystopias, coming-of-age stories, and stories about underdogs struggling against the machine.
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Whoa, it’s June. How the frell did that happen so fast?
I’ve spent all month working on Sweetheartcatalyst. I now have an agglomeration of wordage that I’m calling “Chapter 1″. It’s been very slow going, like wading through molasses. I realized that part of the reason for this is… um… apparently, I’m actually writing [...]
I started spelling the title of my WIP as Sweetheartcatalyst, all one word. It looks better to me that way. I dunno, maybe I’ll change it later. Maybe not.
So my official word count is now a little over 16K. Yay! It helped that I was able to copy and paste a few scenes [...]
So it was back in August that I decided I needed to start over on SHC. But almost immediately, there were a bunch of interruptions, in the form of short stories, novellas, and giant home improvement projects, so for all intents and purposes, SHC was on the back burner. Now I’ve switched to the [...]
January – I submitted “Algae” to an anthology of novella-length science fiction. I also decided that for my next project, I would condense a pre-existing, old sucky trilogy into a single volume, titled The Free City.
February – I worked on detrilogization.
March – I received word that “Algae” had been accepted! Continued work [...]
Have been doing one last read-through/brushup on the novella. There was a place name that had always bugged me. It was the name for the highest point on a certain rugged mountain road. Originally I had called it Midpoint, always thinking I’d come up with something better later. Later I changed it to Vista, [...]
Well, after resolving that I wasn’t going to do Nano this year, I’ve been seeing a whole boatload of my friends declaring their Nano intentions… and this really tempted me towards Nano’ing after all–but upon more mulling, I’ve decided to stick with the original plan. I wish all of you the best with Nano [...]
Well, I’ve come to a decision: I need to start over on Sweet Heart Catalyst.
See, it took me forever to come up with what I have. First of all, my pesky main character had decided that he was a cop investigating a murder: a giant subject about which I Knew Nothing! (as Schultz [...]
I wrote the end of Sweet Heart Catalyst yesterday! Now all I have to do is write the, ahem, pesky middle part
But before I do that, I have to finish up that shortie about my bad guy who’s bad, bad, bad, and how he got that way. It’s about 1700 words so [...]
Sweet Heart Catalyst progress. Slow, but better than going backwards!
Thanks to my writing group, I’ve received some very useful feedback on my first draft of the Wallwalker short story, which I’m now calling Encounter on Planet 352. Looks like I have my de-tripe-ification work cut out for me
I started writing [...]
The Sweet Heart Catalyst progress bar is still moving, however slowly. My new “write everything out of order, in small chunks, and in response to random prompts” approach makes me feel like I’m moving at a glacial pace and in a disorganized fashion–but on the plus side, it feels like almost everything I [...]
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