And Glint of an Artifact is FINISHED! I was beginning to wonder if it would ever happen, the way the story just kept expanding. It needs work, but that’s what revision is for. And thank goodness for revision!

Last night I slept 9 1/2 hours, [...]]]> Day 14 Wordcount: 3393 (Glint of an Artifact, Short Story #3)

And Glint of an Artifact is FINISHED! I was beginning to wonder if it would ever happen, the way the story just kept expanding. It needs work, but that’s what revision is for. And thank goodness for revision!

Last night I slept 9 1/2 hours, was up a few hours and then went back to bed for 2 1/2 hour nap. I’m tired again now, but I feel good at the writing accomplishment. But, it’s obvious I’m fighting something off.

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The challenge in question is the Forward Motion May “Story-A- Day” challenge. See my previous post about the rules. The goal is to achieve the 10 short story level.

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I didn’t expect to finish an entire short story yesterday. It meant I had to find a new idea to write on today. I found one, a sequel to the [...]]]> Not only is this a Monday, it’s also been a horrible allergy day. Ugh, sometimes hard to keep the eyes open, they’re stinging so bad.

I didn’t expect to finish an entire short story yesterday. It meant I had to find a new idea to write on today. I found one, a sequel to the one I wrote yesterday, but it needs a little more thinking. That meant finding a different one.

It took a bit of staring, and lots of tea in hopes of waking up the brain, but I finally found one. It’s tentatively titled “Dark Circus” and set around 1872. And yet, still science fiction. Hehe, did you think it wouldn’t be?

A late start and a hard Monday did not mean no words…

May 2 Wordcount: 690

Yay!

The section ended right before an action sequence, which I love to write. So, I should be set for a good session tomorrow. I can launch right into the action and adventure!

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The challenge in question is the Forward Motion May “Story-A- Day” challenge. See my previous post about the rules. The goal is to achieve the 10 short story level.

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I think that phrase needs to add, “and uncertainty.”

Life changes fast, often broad-siding us from unexpected directions. January has been a month filled with events. I won’t go into the details, but suffice to say that I’m [...]]]> “…in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin

I think that phrase needs to add, “and uncertainty.”

Life changes fast, often broad-siding us from unexpected directions. January has been a month filled with events. I won’t go into the details, but suffice to say that I’m now a month behind on almost everything because of it.

And it brought to mind another benefit of going the Indie route: Flexibility.

My household had a bad month, including me personally. Choosing to go Indie meant that I could give all my attention to those events without worry of losing a contract or angering an editor. Or all the other fall-out that can occur.

Several Indie authors I’ve been following have mentioned that they try not to announce hard and fast release dates because of this sort of thing. It’s one reason I chose not to announce release dates on my first work. Instead, I gave a ball-park estimated time of year. I’ll miss the very first part of that estimation, but perhaps I can hit the latter part.

What this means is that “Night of the Aurora”, the first book in the Salmon Run series is going to be delayed at least into March. After losing January, there’s no other option. Family and health had to come first.

Life happens. I like having the flexibility to roll with it.

The good news is that in February I’ll have a couple novelettes ready to go and perhaps another short story. The novel “Into the Forest Shadows” is also almost ready.

Spring is shaping up to be an interesting release time.

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Now I’m writing up a storm. If something were to happen to me, I want the benefit of my writing [...]]]> I have never had a will. Even when I was young, this bothered me, to the point I recall once writing something out to give everything to my parents and sister in a school notebook.

Now I’m writing up a storm. If something were to happen to me, I want the benefit of my writing to go where I want, and not where a court wants. With the advent of e-books and the long tail possibly going well past my lifetime, either natural or not, this is something for every writer to think seriously about.

Then Neil Gaiman posted this post along with a link to a free template.

Simple, but it will get the job done in my state until I someday come up with something better (or get to a lawyer). Oh, I am SO going to do this over the weekend!

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