Posts by samuel:
Dromedary
It’s been a while since i’ve blogged, hasn’t it? Life’s been busy busy busy. Anyhoo, hello *waves* and hope you’re all chugging along 
I have a story out. Dromedary is now up at Untied Shoelaces of the Mind. It’s perhaps slightly possibly maybe on the absurd side. An audio version will be available in a few days, too. Hope you enjoy it!
Weekly Wrap September 10-16
Weekly writing wrap for the week of September 10-16. September 10 — Woke up to an R this morning. Piece resubmitted. Did some hard copy edits on The Perfect Pass. Will transfer them across to the soft copy in a day or two. Have no idea where to send this story. A rugby league short [...]
Pointers, Part III
This is part III of the Pointers post in my ‘P’ mini-series. Part I can be found here, and Part II can be found here. Like Part’s I & II of this post, most of these pointers are unlikely to be amazing revelations to you, but reminders are often just as good. And while my [...]
Weekly Wrap September 3-9
Weekly writing wrap for the week of September 3-9 September 3 — Did an editing pass over Seaborn, the novelette that came back last week. Cut it down by 731 words, to less than 9k. Pretty sure i can still take more words off it (don’t know if i can get it below 7.5k and [...]
Pointers, Part II
This is part II of the Pointers post in my ‘P’ mini-series. Part I can be found here. Part III will follow next week. Like Part I of this post, most of these pointers are unlikely to be amazing revelations to you, but reminders are often just as good. And while my tone might sound [...]
Weekly Wrap August 27-September 2
Weekly writing wrap for August 27-September 2 August 27 — First editing pass on the new Goldar story. 110 words added (yes, i often add words before i start taking them away). Not really sure if its parts go together well enough yet. August 28 — First session, 1,209 words. Kinda tangenting a bit, too, [...]
Monthly Wrap August 2012
Time to look at my August stattage, whether i made my goals, and what goals to set for September. Novel Words: 60,367 Short Story Words: 9,851 Total Words: 70,218 Novel Drafts Completed: 1 Novels in Progress: 1 Short Story Drafts Completed: 2 Short Stories in Progress: 3 New Short Stories Submitted: 0 Short Story Rejections: [...]
Pointers, Part I
I don’t know about you, but i’m always after wordsmithing tips and pointers and pithy phrases. Be they tips regarding discipline, efficiency, speed, storytelling, routines, you name it, i love to read what works for other writers. Even if they don’t have the exact results for me as they do for someone else, i often [...]
Weekly Wrap August 20-26
Weekly writing wrap for August 20-26 August 20 — Worked on the last of the ‘P’ series blog posts before dinner. Might have to split it into two. 585 words written on a short story, too. Late in the evening, got bit by a short story idea involving a below average rugby league player living [...]
Progress
To preface the waffle below: i wrestled for a few days about with whether to write up this post or not. I worried that it might come across as ‘look at me, look at me,’ when the real purpose isn’t to brag, but to chart. We all, no matter where we are on the writing [...]
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