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Scythe and vodka

Today was regular board games night. We played a wicked sweet strategy game called Scythe in which we were warring nations in an alt-history, post Great War scenario. I was the Soviet Union analogue, and luckily I had plenty of vodka to match. Needless to say, no words were made. […]

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Get real

Technically, 162 new words today (probably a dozen more actually) as I added a fresh mini scene to Midnight, Ep1. That, and a sweep edit starting from the top using all the in-line crits from CC. Why? ‘Cause the cover’s almost done and it’s soon time to make it a […]

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Winter (and lessons) is coming

No words today, editing bits of MIDNIGHT and playing around with the eBook compiling processes. I am happy for this slight reprieve because I really think the current episode of Midnight needs to percolate and recover after the hack ‘n’ slash job I gave it the other day. Publishing and […]

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Yes, I owe a monthly roundup

I suspect as I continue to figure out how to execute on this mini publishing plan. This evening I caught up with a dear friend; we got intoxicated and watched a bunch of Netflix so it was not a productive writing night but a swell social one. Tuesday and Wednesday […]

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Technical shipment achieved!

Spent the writing day dusting off my Scrivener compiling skills. It’s pretty simple once you figure out all the knobs and switches. But the real “publishing” happened with putting the first three chapters of CHILDSEEKER’s on Wattpad as a little teaser (and updating this site). I don’t expect a windfall […]

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Dueling deadlines

So, tomorrow’s end of month, and there are two things “due.” The first is some 3,500 words to meet my goal of 20,000 in September. The second is to ship something. I originally opted for the words, since shipment still depends on covers, and I only have CHILDSEEKER’s, and that […]

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Character interviews

Today was the full conference, from 7am to 3pm. Then another six hour travel adventure. But, on the flight home, I found some motivation to key into some Hunting Midnight issues. A few years ago, when I wrote the first ministory featuring Alena and Deluxe (unfinished; my plan is to […]

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Work trip!

Six hours traveling, doing some work, then prepping to shake a bunch of hands and meet new folks—the ol’ conference game. That was my day and night, so writing was not in the cards. I mean, I did have some time here and there, but my head was in the […]

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Edmonton bound

As predicted, no words today. I did actually have some time I could’ve used, but my head was elsewhere. I did receive some final artwork for CHILDSEEKER’S cover, which was baller! Much more incentive to now get that sucker live and shipped (at least the first installment). A weekend project, […]

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Magazines

I spent the small amount of time I had between work and DnD to research some small circulation fiction magazines. I’d never really considered them before, but there are a lot that accept online submissions these days (shocker!), and I feel like I should run a little gauntlet of collecting […]

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