It began with a challenge. Two figures, standing hip deep in the slime, ichor and filth of a hobby dragging them further from their life’s goal. A call ripped out across the land, beckoning them back. A challenge appears. It lures them away from the murk and oil from their distraction. It refines their choices and guides them on the glory.  I speak, of course, of the wager between myself and one Andrew Eckhart. In the early days of...

A quick status update on a few projects: I’m back full swing into working on the blogs. I left off the end of July with a quiet week, but August starts back with gusto. I’ll be posting daily for the remainder of this month, especially a series on Fluffy Couple/Google Plus called “The Health Road to a Con.” They cover my detail on getting healthy during the month of August before my 2nd visit to Dragon*Con. The book is still in...

I can’t claim to have a perfect track record. Actually, I can probably claim to have an imperfect track record slowly be marred by being productive. July has been a period of consistency with posting on all of my blogs. Some day I’m going to need to download the dates of all of my posts and see how many periods of these “High activity,” I’ve managed and how long they stayed regular. Pity about that imperfect track record but I’m...

It’s been almost four years since I submitted something to a market. I submitted a short story called Total Immersion to Fantasy and Science Fiction back in 2007 and received my first and only rejection letter. Loading up the story and looking it over now, I see clearly why it was rejected. Cliché, boring, and full of amateur mistakes. Things I should have caught then had I really looked over the story and had the right people read it....

For two weeks now, I’ve been keeping up with the writing. As mentioned last post, I’ve been continuing to wake up early and get some Flash Fiction in. When this post was written, their total weight came in at 4108 words. Combine that with the 4798 short story I finished, and I’m up to roughly 9000 words in the past two weeks. It’s not enough compared to be a professional, but I’m climbing. I’m sitting waiting for a first reader...