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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Consider this wall... walked!

I finished the rough draft of Wallwalker yesterday! It feels good to actually finish a piece. I had been feeling a bit disheartened about my writing lately, for various reasons, and yesterday I finally realized that the only thing to do was to keep at it–which inspired me to bang out the rest of the story. [...]

All the little details

I’m furiously working on Algae to try to get it into some semblance of shape for my deadline on Monday. I know I’ve probably said this before, but this is the longest and biggest 10K to 12K story I’ve ever written. Good gawd, the details! I guess that’s the danger of writing about something that actually [...]

Progress report

I’ve made it to Chapter 3 in my rewrite of The Outerlands. The core of the story is the same–that is, most of the same events are occurring, in the same order. The way they’re told, on the other hand, is really drastically different. I’m using almost all new words. There’s very little from the previous [...]

It's a long way to the Outerlands, but I have a map - Part 2 of 2

(continued from Part 1)

I revised The Outerlands again. This time, I went through every chapter, every scene, every sentence, picking everything apart, editing and polishing word by word. I’d never scrutinized my writing so closely before. By this time I had lost count of how many revisions the book had been through, so I referred to [...]

It's a long way to the Outerlands, but I have a map - Part 1 of 2

Did I say I was revising The Outerlands? What I should have said was: I’m rewriting the entire thing from scratch.

The first couple of times I tried to write this story, I didn’t get very far. Sure, I knew what the story was about. There was a female protagonist who was more or less a version [...]