This week we visit “The Right Idea” – Detective Jimmy Delaney story #3. I wrote “In a Flash” as a standalone short story, and thought that was it – but then Jimmy said “Hey, what about this other case, and “Mixed Signals” came to be. But once I let Jimmy in he wouldn’t go away. … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My three blog entries posted as scheduled. Rotating my stories back out to market as fast as I can. I failed to make my weekly quota once more – only 785 words of fiction. I finished my reacquaintance revision of Swordsmaster: Deception. I wrote six days, but didn’t make my daily quota … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals Three blog entries posted as scheduled. I have everything I can reasonably expect back out to market. (There are a couple of stories that are waiting for markets to open.) I finished my rereading of Patrick Rothfuss’ Kingkiller Chronicles trilogy (The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear; I’ve been … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals Three blog entries on posted as scheduled. I managed to get all my available stories out to market, but “Lasting Impression” returned, and so far all the markets remaining for it are temporarily closed (sadly, that was permanently in a couple of cases), so I’m waiting for some openings so I can … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals I posted my three blog entries on schedule. I had two more stories return from market, plus I completed revisions on the last two stories I’ve written, so I had to find four markets to submit to. It’s really helpful that I can finally log my submissions and responses in Literarium – it … Continue reading
I quite often don’t know where a story is going. It’s actually one of the joys of writing for me – I get to be surprised by and enjoy my stories as much as my readers do. Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All my blog posts went out on time. Two stories returned from market and cycled back out. I note that I am failing on one of my goals for this year: I was supposed to review and revamp my blurbs and keywords by the end of June – this has not … Continue reading
Lack of proper editing is very common out there. Even when I read authors who blog about writing and even stress the necessity of PAYING for professional editing seem to miss a lot of line-editing issues in their own published works. Continue reading
As a PANTSER especially, it helps to realize that every series you write – even every story – has its own rhythms and patterns. No matter how confused and in the dark you might feel at times, you will eventually get to your destination. Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All my blog posts went out as usual. Two of my stories returned from market and were sent back out within a day or so, so all of my available stories are out there. On a positive note, one of those stories (“Two Buttons to Eternity”) just earned me my FOURTH HONORABLE … Continue reading
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