It’s been months since I updated this blog but its time I change that. Since I last wrote I have continued to settle into life in Houston. While I don’t want to go into too much detail here, when I moved I was leaving behind a situation which had become unhealthy for me. While I’d [...]
…helped Steve celebrate finishing another book.
…learned to play 5 card draw and seven card stud poker.
…wrote about six pages of a new story about a character who has been lurking in my head for a long time now.
…talked with Kiki about making progress on Honeycutt Tales
…read Touched By Wonder: A Symphony of Fantastic Tales and [...]
Ups and downs in my writing lately…
Slow progress is being made on Honeycutt Tales. My coauthor has been quite busy with her own life lately, but I’ve also had some good ideas about the story I’ve been working on and added a few new words. I wrote a great Heinlein-style rant in favor of [...]
The last few days have been busy ones. Steve is beginning his move into the ‘Slutbarn’ (the duplex Reesa and I share) in preparation for an eventual move to a larger, shared home (to be called ‘Dreamcafe,’ as all of Steve’s houses are); he arrived yesterday from Vegas with a carful of stuff and his [...]
I recently set more steady and ambitious writing goals for myself, with a nifty checklist on posterboard with tickyboxes and gold stars for me to award myself if I exceed my goals. Realistically I know that as I am just phasing into this new method of motivating it will take me time to get up [...]
Many years ago when a lover of mine convinced me to sign up for an instant messenger account, I searched around for something that wasn’t taken without much success. Since nothing really significant to me was available, I picked a name almost at random out of the books of Charles de Lint, one of [...]
For those of you who don’t know, Kiki Christie and I are working together on a humorous erotic science fiction novel, entitled Honeycutt Tales. I finally finished one of the ‘episodes’ tonight. We are roughly 50,000 words into it currently — wow that’s half a book!!
Honeycutt Tales: “The Struggle with Stimmies
Microsoft Word wordcount: 25,104 words
Manuscript [...]