[I] wrote just over 1,000 words yesterday, which is par for the course these day. It was my 305th consecutive day of writing, and my 448th out of the last 450 days. Both are records that I keep expanding with each passing day, but yesterday, according to my Daily Almanac, I set a new record:…
[I] no longer look at my automated Daily Almanac writing entries that are sent to Evernote each day. Usually I glance at them once in a while, but I happened to glance at the one for yesterday, and noticed that I have a microstreak going at the moment. You can see that my consecutive writing…
[I] wrote a little over 20,000 words of fiction in the month of April. It is far less than what I managed last summer, but still a small achievement in that it is the second month in a row that the overall monthly numbers have gone up. I beat march by about 100 words, but…
[Y]esterday, I mentioned how I completed my first week on the second draft of my novel, and provided the number of words I produced for the week. It occurred to me that in the past, I’ve been reporting mostly daily word counts and trends, and never weekly, so this morning, I took a quick look…
[L]ast Sunday, I finally got started on the second draft of the novel I wrote last year. Second drafts are complete rewrites for me. In the first draft, I tell myself the story, figure things out, and then completely rewrite it in the second draft, based on what I know. I try to make it…
[I] submitted my very first story back in early January 1993 and I have been submitting stories ever since. Back when I started, IÂ wanted to believe that one day, I’d sell a story, but I didn’t quite dare to. It’s funny to look back over the path that persistence takes you through. I’ve been wanting…
[A] week or so ago, I calculated how much time I spend writing each day, based on 400 days worth of data that I’d collected1. The data showed that I average about 42 minutes and 15 seconds of writing time per day. I have written every day for the last 267 days, and I’ve only missed…
[Y]esterday, I started writing the second draft of my novel. I finished the first draft back in mid-September. I wrote 1,200 words, and overall, it felt pretty good. I think I’m still trying to find just the right voice, but I feel it coming on, and I imagine I’ll have it soon. What surprised me…
[W]hen I was watching the press conference prior to the Yankees home-opener against the Orioles last week, I saw Derek Jeter interviewed. He was asked at one point about his success in 1996 and not being able to predict his career path then, but how could he be so confident that he would focus on…
[I] recently retired from my book review column, “The Science of Wonder” over at InterGalactic Medicine Show. I wrote a bimonthly book review column there and my column ran for roughly 2 years. It was a lot of fun, but the reading for the column became increasingly too much for me to handle given the…
[T]omorrow, I will start writing the second draft of the novel I wrote last year. As a brief recap: I started writing the novel last February, without actually knowing I was writing a novel. I wrote the story with some fits and starts until it finally caught, and then continued to write, finishing the first…
[B]ack at the beginning of this year, IGMS: Big Book of SF Novelettes was released in paper and e-book. It contains a bunch of novelettes that appeared in the pages of InterGalactic Medicine Show and among the stories, is my very first published story, “When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer.” That anthology recently received a stunning audiobook…