Lets start this year’s A-Z Challenge off right. I am going to try something wildly different. It might be a lot of work, it might not be (it probably will be). Early this year I bought a set of dice in a game shop called Rory’s Story Cubes. I’ve been wanting to try them out and haven’t had a chance yet. A-Z challenge seems like the best place to try them out! This plan is fool proof! Nothing can go…
“Hey Boss,” Casey’s voice crackled through the speakers in the cargo bay, “you might want to hold on. It’s going to get a bit bumpy. “How bumpy?” Avalon already started scrambling to secure the turtle and herself into one of the chairs that lined the walls. In response, the ship rolled into a cascade of wild maneuvers. Anything that hadn’t been secured now flew around, clattering and crashing into everything else. Outside, she could hear the muffled wump of chaff…
Benjamin yawned as he returned to his seat in front of the dozens of monitors. Taking a bite out of his sandwich, he gave them all a slow scan. Each monitor showed a different enclosure throughout Sanctuary in shaded of beryl. Only a handful of the images had movement in them. He watched the nocturnal animals move about their areas. The night shift was easy and peaceful. No one came here at night. No one could. He couldn’t leave until…
Avalon Rodgers skidded to a stop and nearly collapsed. She shuttered as pain racked in from her ears towards her brain from the alarms first blast as it echoed up and down the barren hallway. The urge to drop the wooden crate to cover her ears overwhelmed her and instantly wished that ear plugs had been included in the gear bag. She reached in the box and rummaged around the Arrau turtle that sat inside, pulling out some of his…
And thus the world rotated into the year 2018 and I promptly fell off the planet. While I managed to find my footing around the end of August, I was completely burned out for the rest of the year. I did manage National Novel Writing Month, barely. It was a huge uphill battle to get to 50,000 words last year. Other then that, I did almost zero writing for the year. So, yeah. 2018. Good riddance. Welcome 2019! I’ve got…
It’s about time I got to Septembers Monthy Report. I wrote this three weeks ago now! I’ve literally had no time to deal with anything writing related after I finished the short stories. But here is Septembers Report. September has been my best month so far this year. By a lot. I dedicated to putting the hours in and it shows. It’s unfortunate that time passes so quickly when busy. I need one of those time bubble machines. Where you…
Welcome back! I missed you all last weekend. Last weekend was the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I was preoccupied for the weekend visiting relatives. So, this will be a two week report. Because I can. In the first week, I literally had two time blocks the entire week to get anything done. Seriously, where does all the time go. How can there always be so much stuff that needs to get done at all hours of the waking day? Granted,…
…I can taste it… This week did not go as I had expected. My inability to stay asleep the last nearly two weeks has caught back up with me again. This made for a very long week and a very tiring week. It was hard to focus on work and my current projects at work. Which writing a an editor tool. Which requires a lot of thinking. And my brain was mush all week. It was hard. This also meant…
This week went very well for editing. I got through this week’s goals. A rhythm that appears to be working for me right now is editing on paper for the first half of the week and then moving those edits back to the computer in the second half of the week. The results are that Thunder Gate Arcade, Underwater Cavern, and Volcano Vendor are final. I also retouched Dinas the Destroyer. It’s a lot of fun to be able to…
This week tried hard to make sure I didn’t have any time to write. But look at that, I accomplished it anyway! It’s so pretty. Six stories all finalized. Man. If I had managed to do this much work since April. I’d be so far along. I’d be on another book at this point! Looking at it that way is kind of depressing. But on the other hand, this is the second best week I’ve had this year. Editing at…