To start off the new year, I’m officially announcing the launch of my second publishing company, Endless Sky Books. Whereas my first publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is and always will be a traditional publishing company, …
For the first time, you can now buy the entire Shards of Excalibur series in a single omnibus ebook! Just released by Shadowpaw Press, this includes the latest editions of the books, and costs only half …
The Tangled Stars, my far-future humorous space opera from DAW Books, is now available everywhere in ebook and audiobook (narrated by Wayne Mitchell). For an introduction to the main characters, check out “Thibauld’s Tale” in …
Shapers of Worlds Volume III, the third anthology I’ve Kickstarted that features science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, has now officially been released upon the …
This is the latest in my occasional column about writing science fiction and fantasy that appears in the Saskatchewan Writers Guild magazine Freelance. Authors who are regularly interviewed often profess to hate one particular question, …
At When Words Collide 2022, one of the panels I led featured a handful of the many authors whose stories have appeared in the Shapers of Worlds anthologies I Kickstarted (and who have also, of …
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The first sentence I wrote today…
Cheveldeoff sat in the main briefing room of the Retribution with Grand Deacon Braun, watching the video feeds streaming back from the descending shuttle.
Current word count: 78,849
New words this session: 1,074
Percentage of novel completed: 78.8
Everything today was written in the 45 minutes or so I had to myself in the snack room of the Conservatory of Performing Arts this morning while Alice was three floors up in ballet class and Margaret Anne was off running other errands. That makes it one of the few sections not written in Second Cup.
I wonder if I’ll be able to tell the Second Cup from the non-Second Cup sections when I get to revising?
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2006/11/the-first-sentence-i-wrote-today-39/
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