The taxi picked me up from the house at 10:30 AM. When the seatbelt didn’t work, I smiled and reminded myself it was Friday the 13th. Naturally, I got to Union Station without incident. I had a business class seat on the first leg of the trip from Union Station to Penn Station in New…
I spent about an hour this evening rewriting the first section of “The Graveyard Shift”. I did about 1,000 words and it’s much better than it was before. Now I’ve got the first two sections of the stories complete and I think there is enough glue to hold the reader through the rest of the…
I just submitted my story “When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer” to Orson Scott Card’s online magazine, THE INTERGALACTIC MEDICINE SHOW. With SCIFICTION ceasing publication, this is only the third “online” market to which I have submitted stories. It is also my first submission of 2006, although it’s not a new story. I also submitted…
I sat down at 10 PM to do more writing on “The Graveyard Shift”. I rewrote the second section of the story and it’s much better now. It was a more or less complete rewrite and I did about 1,500 words. I’m also going to rewrite the first section but not right away. I’m experimenting…
I sat down at 9 PM to get started in earnest on my new story, “The Graveyard” shift, and I ended up writing the first two sections, 1,500 words in an hour and a half. And it felt pretty good. I’ve outlined something like 16 sections to the story, an assuming they are all roughtly…
One person’s junk is another person’s gems. I have my Grandfather’s old manual Royal typewriter and I love it. It’s a portable typewriter, and I remember playing with this thing when I was just a little kid. It needs to be cleaned up a bit and it needs a new ribbon, but one day, I…
Sitting in a meeting this afternoon, I got a great idea for a story, and it immediately caught fire with me. When I got back to my office, I jotted down the idea so I wouldn’t forget. I even have a working title, “The Graveyard Shift”. So enthusiastic am I about this story, that I…
I finally got around to writing a new story today, the first of the new year and the first new story I’ve written in many months. It’s a science fiction story with a working title of “If By Reason of Strength…”. I tried starting this story several months ago, but didn’t have a good grasp…
Today I received my best rejection slip ever. It was like hitting a home run that went just foul. It was for my story “Wake Me When We Get There” which I had sent to Asimov’s. It made it out of the slush pile, past the readers and all the way to the editor, Sheila…