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 would say) So [...]
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 far. For [...]
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 a new short story [...]
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 write, comes out [...]
Wow, that really doesn’t look like much progress since the last time I posted a progress bar, does it?
I’ve become a big fan of the Stuff You Should Know podcast. It’s a really good resource when you don’t know much about a topic, and need to find out the basics in like, 20 or 30 minutes. [...]
I’m starting to realize something about Sweet Heart Catalyst: I’ve bitten off a really big chunk to chew. Or however the saying goes. It feels like my last story was so simple by comparison; all I had to worry about was cold weather, ice roads, iron mining, heavy equipment, a space station, and two guys in [...]
I’ve made some progress on Sweet Heart Catalyst. I’ve been writing this thing in a different way than I usually do. Instead of starting at the beginning and writing each chapter or scene in succession, I’ve been using prompts to spark my imagination, and then writing the scenes as they come to me, which is often [...]