August Wrap-Up
August has been a pretty good month. I didn’t get as many new words written as in July. To be honest, I’m not sure exactly how many words I wrote, truth to tell. I don’t generally tally them up month …
Tag: Writing
Editorial Demand
I got the editor’s feedback on Masters yesterday morning. Good stuff! I spent a good chunk of the day, and an hour and a half late at night, moving her corrections and tweaks from the .rtf file she sent me …
A Pub-ing I Will Go
I’ve not done much writing in the last week. Partly that’s because I’ve just been having a bunch of fun with my family. But also it’s because I spent the week practicing covers and getting a bunch of my stories …
No Dice
Well, I heard from Clarkesworld this evening. No dice on publishing Lords of the Remnant with them. That’s not really unexpected, considering how many submissions they get each month. But still, it’s not as fun as hearing they loved it …
Stop Being A Child
Passive Guy, over at The Passive Voice, had a couple great posts this morning. The first was a link to, and comments on, Sarah Hoyt’s continued discussion about why she dropped her agent. The second was a discussion of comments on …
Another Story Bites The Dust
Well, it’s been an interesting couple days. Holy cow, a lot of people sat up and took notice of my post yesterday about ebook pricing. There’ve been almost 200 views of that post alone in the last day and a …
Artists Are Not Special
Fair warning. If you consider yourself an “artist”, this post is likely to piss you off. Read at your own risk. Oh God, if I hear one more “artist” going on about how he needs to suffer for his art, …
It Doesn’t Matter If You Prefer Print Or Ebook
It’s Thursday. And lately, on Thursdays, I inevitably find myself thinking, “It’s Thursday. I wonder what Kris wrote about this week?” And so I have to rush over to The Business Rusch to find out. Today’s a special treat, because …
Little Vacation
I’ve gotten no writing done since last Friday. And that’s ok. After being away from my family for a couple weeks, I decided to just hang with them all weekend. Then the first couple days of this week…well, I just …
30,000 Word Challenge Wrap-up
Ok, the challenge period is over. Yesterday, I got back from work at about 5:30 and managed to write until 9:45, when the wife and kids got home from Maine. It was not continuous writing: I did pause a few …