2021 Writing Year in Review 2

Well. This is going to be painful. Writing This Year Novels: 0 Novellas: 1 (IP Project) Novelettes: 0 Short Stories: 3 (all fanfic) Flash: Wrote a couple of interstitials for Alasdair over at The Full Lid. Scripts: 2 audio scripts Paid Nonfiction: Book Riot newsletters and posts; a lot of stuff on my Patreon. Also ...

Ash Falling From the Sky in December 2

You can donate to the Boulder County Wildfire Fund here. In a minute I’m going to put together what I actually came over to this page for, which would be my year in writing review for 2021. But there are some thoughts I want to jot down, first. Yesterday I was over at a friend’s ...

Fixing Small Things 3

Unintentionally, today ended up being a fix stuff around the house kind of day. I was planning to take it easy and get some writing done, so maybe this was me avoiding writing when my house is already pretty clean. But honestly, it felt really good to do. I had a light fixture falling a bit ...

I am shocked that you think I wanted the thing I actively encouraged to happen. 1

This morning I found myself, perhaps weirdly, thinking of a particular scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It’s the Nazi book burning scene, so obviously imagery warnings here. You get Elsa, the hot Nazi archaeologist, looking slightly teary-eyed and upset while all the book burning is going on. As she walks away, Indiana ...

2020 Writing Year in Review 2

Writing This Year Novels: 1 (finished editing) Novellas: 1 (finished editing) Novellettes: 3 Short Stories: 1 Flash: 0 Paid Nonfiction: Book Riot newsletter and a couple of posts Editing: Several small freelance editing gigs Consigned to the trunk of awfulness, never to return: None this year. Best/Favorite story of the year: I’d have to say it’s actually One People, ...