My Who Killed Amanda Palmer? inspired piece, On the Finding of the Body is now up on Brown God. I call it a “piece” rather than a story because it’s more poem … Read More
Too Much Fun with Writing
The new draft of The Ghost Smuggler that I’m writing at the moment is definitely a very different beast – hopefully a better beast. There’s the switch from third person to … Read More
…Previously on Solitary Mindset
My last post ended with a bit of a cliffhanger. I was 17,720 words into the rewrite of The Ghost Smuggler and had just convinced myself it was all a waste of … Read More
Deep Fried Twinkies
I ate deep fried Twinkies last week. Three of them. I wish I could blame alcohol for my momentary lapse of common sense but unfortunately I was alcohol free at … Read More
Write-a-Thon Day One
It’s day one of the Clarion Write-a-Thon today and the day of our latest half-marathon – the Scotiabank Vancouver Half Marathon. I got a new personal best of 2:00:18 which … Read More
On Surprises and Commitments
I had a surprisingly productive evening writing yesterday. I wasn’t planning on doing any writing to be honest. I was planning on spending a quiet evening lying on the sofa catching … Read More
Two Hundred Submissions
Not a big writing day yesterday, unfortunately. I did manage to scrape together another 404 words on The Ghost Smuggler but that took me to the end of a chapter and … Read More
Heinlein’s Writing Rules
This is the third in a series of Meaty Monday posts – longer posts where I ramble on about writing related topics. You can find the first Meaty Monday post … Read More
Shortest…post…ever
Another productive writing day today – 1055 words added to The Ghost Smuggler, bringing the total up to 7262. Now I’m off to write a new Meaty Monday post on … Read More
The Ghost Smuggler Rewrite Week One
Okay, where were we? Oh, yes. Tuesday was the first big test of the new writing regime – a full day of work plus running plus writing – and from … Read More