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 …
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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 sentences I wrote today…
For Blue Fire:
Petra did not sleep well that night, torn between worry that he might oversleep and….overstimulating…images of the Freefolk girl dancing.
Words today: 2,272
Total thus far: 14,715
For Magebane:
Karl, alone with Lady Vin, who was still studying the final report the Council had received, stood and stretched.
Words today: 1,362
Total thus far: 23,005
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Magebane is the one you actually have a contract for, how come you got more words into the still-on-spec Blue Fire today?” And the answer is simple: today’s Blue Fire scene was an action-packed pivotal bit of plot, whereas today’s Magebane scene was more of the move-Character A-to-Place B, insert-Plot Point C-into-Background D type. So Blue Fire flew along, while Magebane plodded. Still, not a bad number of words all around, considering I did completely unrelated work all morning. I was still reasonably pleased.
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