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 sentence I wrote today (Saturday)…
The lights from Jumpoff Station provided plenty of illumination this close to the giant spheres, but not far away the darkness lurked, waiting for them.
Current word count: 55,954
New words this session: 991
Percentage of novel completed: 55.9
Most of today was spent on moving (except for going to the Regina Symphony Orchestra concert tonight and a brief playground interlude with my daughter). All my desktop computer equipment is now in my new office, but I still have my laptop in my old office and I left the wireless router in place so I have Internet access. I should still have access through tomorrow evening. Monday is the actual move-the-furniture day, and my high-speed access won’t be in place in the new office until Tuesday midday, so I’ll probably fall silent for a day and a half or so.
Although you never know. I do have other methods. There’s something called “dial-up” for instance…
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