Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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The first (rather long and convoluted) sentence I wrote today was…
The journey to the deep-sea camping shelter passed uneventfully for Emily and Dahlia, as most sub journeys did, since Marcasero, so far as anyone had yet determined, was entirely free of “sea monsters” (or any underwater lifeform larger than, say, an old-Earth grouper) and even the most violent surface storm couldn’t roil the water to the depth to which they were descending.
Current word count: 31,919
New words this session: 1,427
Percentage of novel completed: 31.9
Yeah, I know, it’s not a very good sentence…but (all together now): “I’ll fix it later!”
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