I am done with “The Barrier” for now. I still plan to promote it and cogitate on the feedback I get, but I want to move onto another creative project. I decided a while ago that my next project would be “Felix”, a science fiction story I started over a year ago. “The Barrier” I am tempted to… Read Article →
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I was disappointed to get another rejection of my short story “Pete’s Plan” this week. “The Barrier” is almost one-third done now. My various distractions may delay progress. “Pete’s Plan” I got another rejection for my science fiction short story “Pete’s Plan”. It took them 3 months to respond and, by the time I got… Read Article →
Some parts of my new story “Sweat” are autobiographical. I find those are the hardest parts to write. I’ve tried to understand why. Most, if not all, writers draw from their personal experiences in their work. I often find it difficult to do. I based one scene in “Sweat” on an actual conversation I had…. Read Article →
I got back to work on my story Heat Wave this week. I’ve changed the title to Sweat Box. It is a more appropriate title than what I had. I approached the story in a piece meal way. A change from what I’ve done in the past. I developed an overall outline, but then jumped… Read Article →
I finished the first draft of my story Felix. It is a science fiction story set on Mars. I based it on a Lovecraft story. I added 3,100 words this week and the first draft came in a little over 8,000 words. It really needs a rewrite though. I’ll do at least one more draft,… Read Article →
I got back to work on “Felix” this week. It is the story of two astronauts on Mars and their search for a robot rover that got lost many years earlier. I’d left it nearly two months. I added almost 2,000 words this week. I also deleted almost 600 words. The story is now about… Read Article →
Pete’s Plan I got some comments back from some people on this story. I rewrote it based on their comments. I incorporated some new ideas I had as I read it over. It is a bit longer at over 1,000 words now. I think it is better too. I’ll read it over again next week,… Read Article →
I have four science fiction stories on the go now. Over the last few weeks I made progress on a couple of them, but I need to focus on one at a time if I want to get any of them finished. I’d like to find some people to critique my stories. The Science Fiction… Read Article →
I hadn’t planned to work on my science fiction story until later, but the ideas just poured out of my head this week. The story has a (tentative) title now: Heat Wave. I’m taking a slightly different approach to how I write this time. We’ll see how that goes. Through out the week, I wrote… Read Article →
