I recently composed a short story, “Garlic in the Air,” entirely on my iPhone while I was at work. Why the iPhone? Primarily because I was having some issues with my wrist and what might be some mild carpel tunnel issues and the iPhone didn’t aggravate those symptoms. Because I’m using Writeroom on my phone, …
Wherein I post my letter informing me I did not win the Heideman award
So Friday, November 6 saw the conclusion of my 40 days challenge and my totals were, I think, respectable: 24903 words written in total with a daily average of 621. In the 116 days since I started my first 25 day challenge, I’ve written on 95 of those days with a total 47532 words written. …
Wherein I discuss the latest status of my self imposed writing challenge.
I just finished up the second writing challenge that I’ve set myself since July. I found I wasn’t quite as focused on The Devious Astroblabe but the upside of that is that I now have first drafts of two new short stories. My total word count came to 13,414 with my daily average being 447 …
Wherein I discuss the use of Dropbox as a document backup solution.
So today marks my second week of a new writing challenge. This go around is 300 Words for 30 days and I have to admit that the past week I’ve had to really force myself to sit down and write and have ended up not working very much on The Devious Astrolabe. The good new …
The Children of Thayer Street Bright confused and with brash energy; eyes of fire and terror. Young. Younger every year. A rustle in your heart, a whisper of lost lostness. These children of your middle years as they smile wide and smoke and wear self-involvement like a superhero cape slashing red and blue in the …
Thursday was my 25th consecutive day of writing at least 250 words. This last week was actually the hardest, in part because I wasn’t able to go home and stay home after work on any day other than Thursday. Luckily, 250 words is not all that much, so I was able to keep on track, …
Today marks the end of my third week of writing at least 250 words each and every day. I remained primarily focused on “The Devious Astrolabe,” though I had several days when I didn’t connect with that story and so I worked on a story I had started a while ago called “Carving Away.” Technically, …