I’m not going to make this a habit because I don’t want to attempt to switch too often between “blog writer” and “fiction writer” hats. It doesn’t hurt, but it kills my motivation. But I had to mark this occasion. Yesterday, I hit 4,300 words, which is just 50 words over my first week goal. […]
Track the progress of my novel
The outline is complete. I’ve now bolted down the first words in my second attempt at writing a novel (first attempt was for NaNoWriMo, and as far as I’m concerned, doesn’t actually count). So now, I need to be held accountable for actually getting this sorry scrap-heap of nonsense into an actual, honest-to-goodness palatable work […]
John Scalzi is a genius and I hate him for it
(I’m still on my blogging moratorium – but I needed to get this out while it was still swimming around in my head) I don’t really hate John Scalzi, but I do. I just finished The Last Colony the other night, and it was – as expected – completely excellent in every conceivable way. Indeed, […]
Don’t mind me, just hanging up the “gone writin'” sign
I would love to able to say that I’ve been “busy” lately, but that just isn’t the right word. Distracted is probably more appropriate. Between being glued to the Democratic National Convention speeches and pretending to write a novel, I just haven’t found the time to do much else besides surf and not blog. I […]
Getting back on track
I know this blog hasn’t exactly been a “flood” of “nerd” the past few days, and I apologize to regular readers for the lack of content. I’ve spent the past few days buried at work, sans-internet at home, and acting as temporary single dad to my two boys while the wife visited her mother. It’s […]
Is this what Monday mornings are like for scifi writers?
In keeping with the disappointing scifi discussion I started last week, my feed updated this morning with a painfully dreadful post on the scifi/fantasy novelists blog from David B. Coe. In it, Coe talks about what it’s like to be a midlist author. I’m not really going anywhere with this post. I have a book to […]
My first Protagonize story
It’s called Stonerise, and you can find it posted over here. It’s a linear story, not an addventure. Please feel free to rate it and add a chapter!
Mini-reviews forthcoming: Old Man’s Ghost Brigade
I ripped through John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades in a matter of just a couple of weeks – a bit of a triumph for myself, I should admit. I’m used to milking every page of a book for weeks, even months. It took me a year just to get through the […]
Ficlets has competition
I know that there are other entries in the short collaborative fiction space, namely Novlet and Portrayl (both of which were profiled along with Ficlets by ReadWriteWeb a while back). But they hadn’t gained the same amount of traction and their user bases are still relatively small. However, a new challenger has appeared on the […]
Quick book review: Jennifer Government
I finished Jennifer Government this weekend. And even though the dreaded 10-point review scale is a tool of the unintelligent and creatively bereft, I give it a 7 out of 10. Overall, it held within its pages a wonderful, intricately-woven story that had a fantastic premise, but there were a few niggling plot details and […]