Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
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: First Draft Today’s Word Count: 485. It came really close to being zilch, so I’ll take it. Total Word Count: 5,030 What happened: Betty met Mary […]
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: First Draft Today’s Word Count: 625. And I didn’t write all weekend, either. I need to hustle if I’m going to catch up. Total Word Count: […]
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: First Draft Today’s Word Count: 664 Total Word Count: 3,920 What happened: The professor had a conniption when his mystery machine got dropped, but Betty smoothed […]
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: First Draft Today’s Word Count: 1,282 today (only 681 yesterday, so I’m a bit behind) Total Word Count: 3,256 What happened: Betty and the professor got […]
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: First Draft Today’s Word Count: 1,270 Total Word Count: 1,270 What happened: Right now I’m just writing out a detailed synopsis, then I’ll go back and flesh out […]
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, world building and plotting. What got done: Yesterday, nada, which was why I didn’t post an update. Matt and I spent the bulk of the day touring Woodward […]
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: Researching, world building & plotting What got done: Over the weekend I did a little more research into Tom Mix, and rounded out my cast with a […]
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: Research What I accomplished: Today’s work was mostly passive research — watching some old clips of Will Rogers on YouTube to get a handle on his […]
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 Betty. Started reading Green Grow the Lilacs (the play on which the musical Oklahoma! is […]
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 detailed biography of Betty Blake Rogers that gave me everything I needed, and the story […]
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