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An Update on This; an Update on That

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Boy, it’s been a while since I wrote a blog post. I haven’t felt the need to post any “life updates”, because Larissa has been doing such a great job of that over on her blog (a far better job than I could hope to do, in fact). She posts all kinds of photos and everything!

On the writing front, my output has obviously decreased significantly since the first half of 2012, so I haven’t had much to update there, either. I’m still putting out a chapter each week for Special People, though I took a break over Christmas, but any SP-related news items that come up get posted on that site, not here. (You should probably follow along over there, by the way. There’s been more progress on the comic project lately, and the current storyline is approaching its finale sequence.) I hope to put a few more interactive opportunities out there for people to get involved with soon, as well.

The Year of Stories is still on indefinite hiatus, and my Lucas Galloway novel is still somewhat in limbo. I don’t have the time or creative energy available to me right now to work on multiple projects at once, so in order for me to return to either of those I think I’m going to have to take a break for Special People, which is perhaps something I’ll do while the comic is posting, whenever that happens to be.

Something I really should get around to doing soon is compiling 50-Word Stories: Volume Three. All of the material exists on the site already, and I have the cover art, etc., so I just need to choose which stories to include, put the cover and some sort of essay together, and release it. I’ve been putting it off far too long, and it’s about time it went on my actual To-Do List. If I haven’t gotten it done by mid-February, someone give my a kick!

Beyond all of these things, life rolls on. I finished Volume 1 of Don Quixote last week, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I want to wait until I’ve read Volume 2 before adding it to my 50 Best Novels list; I’ve heard that the second volume takes on a somewhat different tone than the first, and I think that may affect how highly I rank it. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it land in the top 10 eventually, though.

There are plenty more books out there, including several on my shelves, that I’d like to get around to reading, and I’m going to try to share a few thoughts on them as I finish each one, if for no other reason than to make better use of this space, so that it doesn’t sit quite so idle, and also to get my brain and fingers used to more frequent writing again.

P.S. Hockey is back! Hooray!

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Writing Update – September 16, 2011

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I mentioned in my post yesterday that I had a story published by OneFortyFiction.

Beyond that, this week has been moderately productive on the writing front. I wrote a flash fiction story called “Reclaiming the Night” and submitted it to a couple of places. It was originally a TypeTrigger story, but I fleshed it out and edited it a bit.

I also improved on a Six-Minute Story piece called “What We Left Behind” and submitted it to handful of markets.

I’m working through a difficult portion of my novel, but I’ve done 4,500 words in that so far this week, and I’d like to do a bit more tomorrow. I know the direction the story has to go from here, but I’m struggling a bit with a couple of new characters, so I have to get it all straight in my head.

Another thing I’ve been working on is a bit of a world-building collaborative project. I wrote the second story from this new world and have been doing some thinking about where to go from there. Not sure how soon I’ll be able to talk about that more, but it’s a lot of fun so far, and we’ll see where it ends up.

No responses from markets to report this week. I have 9 stories submitted to 19 different markets that are pending responses.

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Writing Update – August 20, 2011

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This week I’ve been chugging along on my novel, and I’m up to about 13,500 words now. That’s almost 50 pages, and I’m not yet a quarter of the way through my outline.

I had a few stories rejected by various publications, all par for the course. There’s a possibility that I’ve had a children’s story accepted by one place, but it isn’t confirmed yet. I currently have seven stories out in the ether, submitted to eleven different publications (because of simultaneous submissions of one story to multiple magazines).

I’ve had a sci-fi idea kicking around for a few weeks that finally blossomed yesterday, and I’ve been working on outlining it. I don’t know if I want to take time out from my novel to work on a different idea, though, especially since the outline for this new one is shaping up to be in the 10,000 to 15,000 word range, or possibly even longer, depending on how I structure it. I think I’m going to work more on the outline this weekend, and decide after that how I want to prioritize my projects.

Of course, I’m still working on my Master’s thesis, too. I’m doing revisions right now, and should hopefully be done those at some point next week.

When I find out whether my children’s story has actually been accepted, I’ll let everyone know where and when you can see it. Until then, I have lots of work in front of me!