I had a lovely vacation. I’m also quite pleased with this one. I did a good bit of research into hieroglyphics for it, to the extent that you get a bit of advance warning on a plot point if you’re … Continue reading →

Being ten or fifteen pages ahead in my notebook has given me the ability to go back a pretty good distance and change things (when I have to make future events fit better) before they air, which I did in … Continue reading →

Iseabail’s remark about the gallows is one of the backstory thingies I mentioned in the last weekend update which I would like to explore sometime down the line. It would likely be more vignette-length than a full story.

I had a productive few days off, and got a good deal of writing done. Secret of the Dutchman’s Cross is looking to be very long for one of my stories, probably in the vicinity of 70 pages (where each … Continue reading →

I should really call this something more like 16A; it’s scandalously short. Alas, I have a ton of things to do before I’m ready to leave for my vacation tomorrow, and it’ll have to stand as is. I’ll have more … Continue reading →

It shouldn’t be too surprising that camels will factor into the story, given that it’s a desert and it’s me. At the end of this week, I’m going on vacation for two weeks, but I’m far enough ahead on writing … Continue reading →

Yes, it’s a little short, but it’s also a holiday week, and given the length of my weekend, I’m apt to get a lot of story done before Monday night (when I’m going to type the next entry, going by … Continue reading →

This is about the length of post you can expect for the foreseeable future—400-500 words twice a week seems to be about the pace I can maintain. Compare that to the people doing Camp NaNo (i.e. July NaNoWriMo) this month, … Continue reading →

I’ve switched over to Feedly for my RSS reader (because of Google closing down Reader), which doesn’t seem to respect my tab formatting here. Alas; I spent an inordinate amount of time getting those right. Then again, I don’t think … Continue reading →

Hello, people I actually know! I hope you become regulars. I’ve done some interesting things behind the curtain here lately, in an effort to get myself a little higher in the Google rankings for the query ‘many words’1 which I’ll … Continue reading →