Completed the first draft of a new action-adventure short story today, currently titled “Up in the Nightgaunts Gang” and set in Spire between the events of “The Alchemist of Liberty” and Tactics of Transience. Oh, and it only took a month and half to write from conception to 17.5 k word first draft (and is one of the primary reasons that I didn’t blog as much as I wanted to).

The next set of critiques from the Turkey City Lexicon is common workshop story types. Read the rest of this entry »

The next set of critiques from the Turkey City Lexicon is for paragraph and sentence structure. Read the rest of this entry »

The next portion of the SF critique lexicon that I’ve pulled out deals with writing dialogue. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently I have been putting together a writer’s glossary and as part of this I have (re-)examining the SF critique lexicon that put together last year. Read the rest of this entry »

Sorry for the longish silence.  I’ve been meaning to blog something — and there are a number of potentially interesting items ranging through the definition of “science fiction”; writers’ glossaries; Thanksgiving get togethers; what has been going on in my regular writers’ group; and a few more things… — but I have been distracted, primarily by my the short story that I’ve been working on, and, to a lesser degree, by the glossaries that I have been researching and wikifying.  More on both of those later.  As to anything else of real significance, well, not much.  Everyone I know is reasonably healthy and happy.  Which is a good thing going into the holiday season.