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 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 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 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 the dollar store and bought a new notebook and a 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 class night, so probably writing isn’t going to get done 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 Oklahoma University state history textbook and a biography on Will 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: Without a word, Shane pulled her close and charged at Read more…
I’m astounded whenever I get a comment — which happens more often than you’d think — from someone saying how impressed they are that I’ve got everything so together, or that I’ve got things figured out. I am, frankly, astonished that I ever even manage to give anyone this impression, Read more…
A while back, I was invited to be the guest of honor at a book club meeting where they would be discussing my first novel, Restless Spirits. After a couple of months of being various amounts of totally psyched, nervous, and completely terrified, that book club meeting finally happened on Read more…
Kiss of the Muse, by Paul Cezanne
First, some updates: today marks the official launch of Bauhaus Online Creative, my new freelancing site that is replacing The Web Wrangler. So now I can stop being preoccupied with that, and start being preoccupied instead with my next big personal web project, which will be to build a custom theme for this here blog. Excitement!
Also, today I finally started using my Google+ profile, so I guess it’s no longer pointless to add me to your circles.
And now to the real reason for this post. The other night I dreamed the beginning of my next novel. I woke up from that dream and turned that strange scene over and over in my brain until not only did it make sense, but I had an entire plot to go along with it. And after two days of scribbling furiously in my notebook whenever I could grab some quiet time, I now also have a five page outline, and I can’t wait to write this book.