* Not much over the last week or so. Been busy with this and that, writing, working, staying warm.

* Congratulations to my friends whose comic works have been announced: Ande Parks is writing the new Kato title for Dynamite and Jai Nitz is writing the new old Kato origin for Dynamite. Some very cool stuff there to come. My friend Bobby Nash has ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting year so far. Here's where you can find my writing as of today:

The Long Range: A series of 13 short stories that connect in various ways to establish a universe that I may want to play in later on. I started this work as a way to challenge myself to write a story a month and to explore different genres: science fiction, ( Read more... )

* You know how when an idea works its way into your head and it doesn't want to go away? That's what's happening to me the last couple of days. This thing is just burrowing away at me and it won't let go. It keeps growing and evolving in ways --- I think I'm ready to handle it, but I want to be sure before I go for it. I think I am ( Read more... )

* I'm a lot excited that my stories are part of the great group of tales at The Penny Dreadful. This was the announcement I alluded to on Facebook the other day and hinted at on Twitter. It's not a big announcement (I warned that it wasn't) but it's significant in that my stories are now reaching a different audience. This is, of course, the ( Read more... )

* So I've begun searching for places to sell stories. I'm looking at online markets first, but I'm not discounting the magazines that are still surviving on the racks at my local Borders and Hastings. I wish there were more indy bookstores in town that sold magazines, but there's a decided dearth of those right now. I still support the local ( Read more... )

* The snow that came down yesterday was heavy and wet, but ultimately no big deal. It's still on the ground and the trees reminded me of cherry blossoms with the big clumps of snow on the branches. The things is, we're bracing for more snow Sunday afternoon and overnight into Monday. Could be a significant accumulation and that's bad news. Oh ( Read more... )

* Yesterday was a very good day of writing where words just poured out of me "like champagne at midnight on New Year's Eve" and "sweet as a stranger's kiss". I started a new story called 'Honest Work' and it's one that's been percolating in the back of my mind periodically burbling to the top with ideas and plot points and characterization things ( Read more... )

* We're supposed to get some snow dropped on us today and overnight, but it's already starting to sleet here even before the sun's come up. Can't say I'm excited at all about snow any more, but if it's only 2 - 4 inches, well - eh, I can deal with that ( Read more... )

* I've finished the first paper edit of the NaNovel that I'd been calling OverTime. As I read through the work, I realized that the title (though I thought it initially clever) wasn't going to work in the long term. I read the story and came to understand what the story was really about. It's not simple and has a great deal more to do with ( Read more... )

This is a post about writing. Feel free to ignore it and move on.

* I bought Scrivener after working with the trial version post-NaNoWriMo and having heard raves about it in this article from Antony Johnston (who writes one of my favorite comic books). I have yet to play with all the features on the corkboard, and I realize that the feature that ( Read more... )