Project: Radium Town, the Steampunk Weird West adventure set in my hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma at the dawn of statehood and featuring Will Rogers and Tom Mix. Writing stage: Research What I accomplished: Today’s work was mostly passive research — Read more…
Project: Radium Town, the Steampunk Weird West adventure set in my hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma at the dawn of statehood and featuring Will Rogers and Tom Mix. Writing stage: Character development What got done: Wrote up a character outline for Read more…
So we’re back from the vet, and it’s worse news than I’d anticipated. Sasha’s cancer is back, and so is the infection. She was dehydrated and running a fever, so they gave her some IV fluids and antibiotics and loaded Read more…
Project: Radium Town, the Steampunk Weird West adventure set in my hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma at the dawn of statehood and starring Will Rogers. Now with bonus Tom Mix! Writing stage: Research & Plotting What I learned/accomplished: Found a more Read more…
Project: Radium Town, the Steampunk Weird West adventure set in my hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma at the dawn of statehood and starring Will Rogers. Now with bonus Tom Mix. Writing stage: Research What I accomplished/learned: On Saturday I went to Read more…
Project: Radium Town, the Steampunk Weird West adventure set in my hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma at the dawn of statehood and starring Will Rogers. Writing stage: Research What I learned: Nothing! Fridays are grocery and errands day and also Bible Read more…
Project: Radium Town, the Steampunk Weird West adventure set in my hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma at the dawn of statehood and starring Will Rogers. Writing stage: Research What I learned: Nothing new, really. Last fall I’d picked up an old Read more…
Project: Eucha Falls, the recurring dream/creepy pasta/Slenderman mashup that’s taking longer than any short story should ever take to write. Starting word count: 10,314 Today’s word count: 236 What happened: FINISHED IT! Final word count (before editing): 10,550. Still novelette Read more…
Project: Eucha Falls, the recurring dream/creepy pasta/Slenderman mashup that’s taking longer than any short story should ever take to write. Starting word count: 9,385 Today’s word count: 928 What happened: The climactic penultimate scene. Lots of running. Non-spoilery sneak peek: Read more…
Okay, gang, we’re going to try something new. Since we’re already (!) coming up on the end of the first quarter of 2013, it’s high time I get a move on with some of these goals. So I’m going to Read more…