Tag: Craft
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Good Ship Gould
As promised…here is the final cover for Good Ship Gould… Many thanks to my wife for the artwork and design. It’s a perfect representation of the silliness and satire contained on each and every page…with just enough of that vintage, 1950s Cold War Navy poster feel.
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Another update
Might have some good news, but that’s something I’ll talk about later. WIP #1, sequel to my first book manuscript, sits at 31,000 words with a budget of 120,000. So, 25% done. WIP #2 is me turning a short story that was recently accepted for publication into a novella or full-length book, stands at 16,500…
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In Progress
Been working on expanding a short story into a book. Planning for 60,000 words. The story started at 10,000 words and I’ve been breaking it into portions that can be expanded into individual chapters. After a week of work, the word count is up to 15,000 and the first drafts of 3 chapters are complete.…
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Accepted
Got an acceptance email this morning for a piece that I wasn’t even sure I wanted to finish writing. I can’t give any spoilers right now, but the work was a short story that dealt with some horrific incidents and a main character who has spent a long time dealing with everything. I didn’t want…
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Short Stories
Finished the first draft of the last story for the collection. Now…off to the land of revisions and editing for a few months before I need to think about finding a home for this manuscript. Again…do I spend the time to search for an agent, knowing that there aren’t a whole lot of folks out…
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Update…Manuscript number….3?
There’s a post on this website titled John Doe which began as a quick prompt in one of my classes. We had a silent guest in class (on Zoom) and we had maybe ten minutes to write down whatever we noticed about the guy. That led to the aforementioned post and the post kinda tumbled…
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Update on manuscript #2
Didn’t get much in the way of new writing done on this project over the weekend. Chose to go through what’s there already and walk through the scenes and dialogue in my head (okay…and out loud with me doing all of the voices…). Generated nearly 30 pages of notes: What would he be doing…? What…
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