The title of this post is based on the title of the book "October the First Is Too Late", by Fred Hoyle. One of the many books of my late grandfather's which I read many years in the past, and thoroughly enjoyed. One of the books responsible for the fact I now write primarily in the genre of science fiction. It is also possibly partially responsible for my interest in science-y things in general. However, this post is not about it being too late. This post is specifically about the fact ... View Post
Another Belated Writing Prompt Wednesday: "Starting from Chekhov", a writing exercise.
So I completely forgot that Wednesday was Wednesday this week. Just bear with me folks, I'll get my brain back in order one of these days! I meant to share this exercise a long time ago but then forgot about it, too, so now that I am remembering things again, I thought this would be as good a time as any to finally post it! The following is the result of a writing exercise done during the New Letters Writing Workshop at the University of Missouri- Kansas City. We were to take the ... View Post
Professional Feedback Round #2: "Cheetah on the Roof"
This weekend I attended the New Letters Writing Conference at UMKC as a noncredit "student". After having just attended both the RT Booklovers Convention and the writing panels at KC, MO's ConquesT 44 science fiction convention, this very-much-more-structured and heavily literary conference was something of a... um... well, completely and utterly different world, lol - although it ended up being just as helpful and informational. But I'll get into that in another post. The purpose of this ... View Post
Project List for June 2013
And here we go again! I cannot believe how fast May went by! WHOOOOOSH!!! This worked out super swell last month, so I'm going for it again: Write 200 words a day or 1400 words a week, of anything, period. I know this seems like a low number in the grand scheme of things, but I’d much rather continuously exceed my goal than continuously fail to reach it. So, I set it low for daily counts, to be within an acceptable range to make up words if I don’t get to write for a day or two! (Goal = ... View Post
The RT Booklover's Convention Experience! Yowza!
A little background for you: Tuesday, April 30th, 4:45pm... I very abruptly discovered a writing/reading convention was taking place in Kansas City, MO - a 40 minute drive from my house. It had already started, in fact, because it was the totally awesomesauce RT Booklover's Convention, which I had never heard of until that very moment. I could probably blame my ignorance on two things, 1) I am not a romance genre follower (but might be now!) and 2) I have been very behind on the world of ... View Post
What I Learned from my Writer's Digest Workshop…
In case some of you weren't aware, I recently enrolled in a Writer's Digest online workshop. It began October 4th and ended December 27th of 2012. It was entitled "12 Weeks to a First Draft", and consisted of 12 assignments, each of 2- 2500 words, which were submitted weekly for individual critique by the instructor, a published career author or a literary agent. In my case the instructor was Stephen Mertz, who has published over 30 books in his ... View Post
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