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…
Chris Keating spent the first couple of hours of his time on board the BPS Sanctification being shouted at by various Holy Warriors of increasing rank, but soon enough they were all too sick to shout.
Current word count: 71,986
New words this session: 2,366
Percentage of novel completed: 71.9
Two sessions again today, but not as many words as yesterday. That’s because I had to do some backtracking, rearranging and rewriting of today’s scenes before they led me down paths that would do great violence to the plot. I probably actually wrote as many words as yesterday, I just threw out a thousand of them.
But we’re past the 70 percent mark and closing in on three-quarters…
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