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2022
- New story: Saying Goodbye. About eight pages long, science fiction. This one came from wanting to wr...
- New story: Bag Field. About twenty pages long, fantasy. I started writing this story in March 2021 b...
- Projects — Prints 2.8
- New story: Research Notebook 17, about ten pages long, fantasy. This one was surprisingly easy to wr...
- New story: Mother Tongue, about twenty pages long, fantasy. I started working on this story back in...
2021
2020
- Links #27
- Links #20
- As a spur to get myself writing more, I’ve put up a new writing statistics page. There you can see i...
- Links #7
- Links #6
- Achievement unlocked: today I finished the first draft of my (as yet untitled) novel, weighing in at...
- A mere two thousand words remain left to scribble down on the first draft of this novel. It seems a...
- In Robin Sloan’s week four POTO diary I came across three important-to-me ideas about writing. World...
- Came across Marie Brennan’s AMA today and was struck by the bit about incubating story ideas. I writ...
- Storybook intro
- An update on the novel: I’m at around 226 pages on this first draft, which translates to roughly 87%...
- From a Ted Chiang interview: For me, it is about identifying the things that you find interesting th...
- I have now passed 50,000 words on the novel, making this the longest piece I’ve ever written, period...
- Two months ago I posted about the novel I’m currently working on and mentioned how smoothly it was g...
- This quote from Guy Gavriel Kay (from a 2014 article in The Guardian) has been comforting and inspir...
- I’m about a third of the way through the first draft of a novel. As it happens, this is the furthest...
- Brief update: still alive, doing fine, just staying home with my wife and kids in the hope of helpin...
2019
2018
- Earth Below
- Daily goal chart
- Update on projects: I’m working on a short story. All of my story drafts of late have turned darker...
- Ursula K. Le Guin in Words Are My Matter: Present-tense narration is now taken for granted by many b...
- Michael Swanwick on how fantasy is not about magic: So what is the beating heart of fantasy, its sin...
- I’ve learned lately that I quickly lose interest in the fiction I’m writing unless it has the follow...
2016
- A quick update: I was stuck for a while on the Dagh story, but I’ve started spending my lunch hour w...
- I’ve spent the last few months avoiding the heck out of writing the novel (Edge of Magic). The plot...
- Speed
- Back on December 3, I made a goal to write a thousand words of fiction a day, every day (skipping Su...
- Today I tried doing my daily writing via phone dictation, and it went surprisingly well. I had to co...
- The state of the novel: avoiding outlining. I ended up shelving the Cria/Iresha storyline (it’ll be...
- Edge of Magic update
- The Edge of Magic