It was a somewhat productive week. I did work on the novel Proxima Centauri some, adding probably 2000 words. It’s not a concerted effort, but it’s progress. I also made a push this past weekend to get a bunch of short fiction off my hard drive and into the market…. Continue reading
I completed two short stories in the past week. One is about a scientific mission to a collision between two neutron stars – something I call a maelstrom. The other was intended to be for Neil Clarke’s Cyborg anthology, but the word count ended up being outside the guidelines. I… Continue reading
I finished the first pass edits of A Darkling Nine and have submitted the manuscript to first readers. I hope to have them back within the next 8 weeks or so. Meanwhile, it’s time to start thinking about starting the next novel, Proxima Centauri, the second book in the Deep… Continue reading
Now that the novel is written and I have completed my first-pass edits, I’d like to introduce my newest novel, A Darkling Nine. – – – – – – – – – – Gaylord Frost is a retired engineer who is restricted to a wheelchair. He perfected vacuum cracking, a… Continue reading
I made some progress in my first edit pass of A Darkling Nine. I’ve made it through 48 pages–not a particularly large number of pages, but progress nevertheless. Other obligations, particularly with my teaching gig at the community college interfered with the edits, but most of that was one-shot. I… Continue reading
Not much progress made this week on anything. I did a few edits on A Darkling Nine, an effort that I need to step up. Non-writing commitments and home repairs have been dominating my time, but I do want to get the first edit pass for A Darkling Nine in… Continue reading
I did not work on fiction at all this past week, though I have been chewing on ideas for the sequel to Rigel Kentaurus. That book originally had the working title Barnard’s Star, but the plot falling together is not supporting that title. The working title is now Proxima Centauri…. Continue reading
One thing that remains true for every writer is the fact that books get written faster if you write more. That is to say, if you write 2000 words every day, you will finish in half the time as it would take writing 1000 words each day. The problem for… Continue reading
Not much new writing this week, although I did spend quite a bit of time answering some questions at wetwebmedia.com, so that sort of counts. I’ve been debating whether to start the next novel or to give A Darkling Nine a first edit pass. There are pluses and minuses to… Continue reading
Friday evening, I struggled trying to continue my novel-in-progress into the next chapter. I ended up walking away from it after a word count of only 583 on the day. My target has been 1750 daily throughout this novel. I returned that evening and reread the last few paragraphs. After… Continue reading
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