30,000 Word Challenge – Day 2
Tonight, I only worked on the Scifi thriller. And that’s ok, because I primarily meant the 30,000 word challenge to go toward that book when I came up with the idea. That said, I think I’m going to crank out …
Author: Michael Kingswood
30,000 Word Challenge – Day One
Flawless Victory today. I completed 648 words toward my scifi thriller, and 2885 words toward a short story. Total: 3533 words. Sweet! The short story is entitled In Your Sleep. I wrote it for the second volume of the Machine …
Geo-bachelor
I spent the weekend, and the 4th, at my in-laws’ house in Pittsfield, Maine. We came east and up to visit for Independence Day, which is of course, always cool. They’ve got a big ol’ swimming pool, and the kids …
2nd Quarter 2011 Goals Assessment
Well, another three months have passed, and now the year’s half over. It’s time to assess how I did in the last quarter, and how I’m doing for the year as a whole. So let’s get to it, shall we? …
Honorable
Hey wicked cool. I just got the email from Writers of the Future. Passing in the Night, my submission for last quarter, got an Honorable Mention! Guess that means I don’t suck completely. Now to submit Passing to a publisher. …
Feeling Grateful
I often point over to Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch in this here blog. Naturally, I do that because they’re both very experienced writers, very smart with business, and they make a hell of a lot of sense. …
Deadline – Met!
Right. Well, today’s 30 June, the last day of the quarter for Writers of the Future. Submissions have to be in by midnight tonight. A week ago, I was starting to sweat the deadline, because I’d barely started a story …
A Book on Contracts
I love The Passive Voice. Well, maybe love is too strong a term. But Passive Guy does a great job linking to and commenting on the latest goings on in the writing world. And with his background as an attorney, …
Ranking or Cash Flow?
As is obvious from my last several posts, I’ve been spending a lot more time on the Kindleboards lately. Considering that Masters is primed and just about ready for release late next month, it seemed appropriate to link up with …
Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face
It seems that’s what some independent bookstores are doing. I went by Joe Konrath’s blog today, and read his post about J K Rowling self-publishing Harry Potter in ebook format. In that post, he also discussed other developments in the …