admin | January 31, 2010
My motivation is bottoming out right about now. Having trouble keeping rolling on my current project. Somehow, I need to dig down deep and pull up a charged nuclear fuel rod, then move that into the reactor before I have a meltdown. I hate motivation fails like this, especially when there’s no good reason for [...]
admin | January 30, 2010
Though today was a terribly busy day, I did manage to get the ball rolling on my new short story! I did a lot of brainstorming, made some notes, then actually wrote over a hundred words to start the puppy! It doesn’t sound like much, but I promise, it was quite an achievement. It isn’t [...]
admin | January 29, 2010
Right now, I should be writing a story for the upcoming workshop I’ll be attending. Correction: I should have finished the story, which is due February 15. (More like 3-4 days before that, since I have to snail mail it to the editor.) Instead, I’ve been sitting here brainstorming my next novel! It’s classic avoidance: [...]
admin | January 27, 2010
I haven’t written a lick in 3 days, and it’s making me crazy! My productivity has been at a standstill since Sunday, when I finished the first draft of the graphic novel…which is normal, I know that, there’s nothing wrong with taking a few days off. In fact, I’ve been doing a lot of mental [...]
admin | January 26, 2010
After finishing the first draft of the graphic novel, I had a little down time Monday, then started getting back up to speed again today. In addition to getting the graphic novel manuscript printed and bound for my first reader to review, I resubmitted some short stories that had been collecting dust for a bit, [...]
admin | January 25, 2010
Now that I’ve finished the first draft of my latest long-form writing project, a graphic novel, I’m facing a familiar problem. I’m really out of sorts! The truth is, I have several important short-form fiction projects lined up to follow the graphic novel, and I’ve been itching to get them rolling…but I’m having trouble shifting [...]
admin | January 24, 2010
Literally just finished draft one of the graphic novel script I’ve been writing since early November! This after writing like a maniac all weekend. Sometimes it happens that way; I’ll get close to the end, and then the rest of it will just start flowing and I’ll go on a wild tear. I never plan [...]
admin | January 23, 2010
I just got around to seeing the film Wanted on DVD, and I really wanted to hate it. I loved the original graphic novel by Mark MIllar, and I knew the movie had taken extreme liberties with the original work. For whatever reason, the screenwriters and producers had decided to change the plot in a [...]
admin | January 22, 2010
As you might recall, I love to swim. Two or three times a week, I swim at the local YMCA, which has huge physical and psychological benefits. Sometimes, though, there are minuses along with the pluses. Today was a perfect example. I had an awesome swim. All told, I swam a full mile, and I [...]
admin | January 21, 2010
The new prequel to the awesome show Battlestar Galactica premieres Friday night on SyFy…and my expectations could not be any lower. Though, at first, I was seriously jazzed about the idea of the prequel, titled Caprica, I’ve since read enough about it to think it won’t be up to snuff. It looks like it has [...]
The Fictioneer will be appearing at World Fantasy 36, set for October 28-31, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio.
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