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…
He didn’t have any problem spotting the remaining Holy Warrior.
Current word count: 95,974
New words this session: 4,340
Percentage of novel completed: 95.9
A record number of words today, partly because I needed to make up for not writing at all on Saturday and Sunday, and partly just because I’m SO close to reaching the end that things are flying (literally, in one scene…).
First draft should be done this week. Maybe even tomorrow. Then I’ll let it rest while I try to catch up on a couple of other things for the rest of the week, and plunge into revision next week.
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