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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What I've been working on lately

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 [...]

July 18th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: progress | Leave a comment

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. [...]

June 16th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: research, writing process | Leave a comment

Writing the sweet things first

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 [...]

June 1st, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: progress | Leave a comment