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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been taking a break from editing The Outerlands to work on another short story. This one takes place on a fictional planet called Diamanta, where it’s almost always cold. I imagine it being kind of like “planet Alaska” or “planet far-north Canada”. One of the main industries there is mining–specifically, iron mining. They mine the [...]