Friday Update 1/24/25

Ok, first thing’s first, Last Friday I didn’t update because I was traveling. I was in Vegas for the week taking an incredible number of notes on Space Opera and all of its inner workings, attempting to internalize all that lecture, and then also writing a story so I could get critique from my instructor.…

Oooh, a little late on this Friday Update because the day really got away from me. My reminder popped up at 7 and I went EEP! This week I received the first assignment for my scifi craft class. I pondered the brief over the weekend, then wrote a short story Monday/Tuesday. It’s formatted and printed…

Every year I look back on my wordcount and project totals to wrap my brain around what exactly I’ve accomplished. There are two lists here, a list of things I published and a list of things I’ve written. There is always a little bit of crossover with these lists. I often write things on a…

Last update for the year! Next week I’ll have a lovely review for you all, but this week I’m under a deadline (ugh!). Hellebore #3 is due to the editor on the 1st and as of today I’ve got three chapters left. (about 7k) I have done nothing but write (and recover from high wordcount…

This week is all about words! I’m through the opening stages of Vampire Exposed (Hellebore Court #3), just shy of 8k. Since I’m about to start chapter 4, this means Exposed will be slightly longer than the previous novella. I’m looking at a total of 25-27k to wrap it up. This is nicely within my…

Lots of movement happened this week and a bunch of things were crossed off the to-do list. First, short stories on submission: Beholder rejected from Interzone, sent to Analog Raze rejected from Azimov, sent to Interzone Lovelace still pending at Analog Next, my scifi short story for the #30 issue of Boundary Shock Quarterly is…

Happy Turkey Day to all my US friends, I hope you feasted well. Due to the holiday this week, my work hours were few right at the start. I made good progress on my Scifi short story, it’s about 2k from the end, which will be satisfying to send off to the editor. I’ve been…

This week my main goal was to put some words down on my scifi short story for BSQ Magazine. I’m close to 8k on that and closing in on the expected 10k total to finish it off. That will happen next week and in more than enough time to give it a fine-toothed proofread before…

This week I’ve broken ground on my new scifi short story for BSQ magazine. According to my outline I’m looking at about 10k total. Now that words have started, that’ll build up quick. I’d love to wrap it up next week. The Veldura house is moving soonish. We don’t have official orders yet, but our…