So here’s some updates on what I’ve been working on. I’m finally done with my commissions, rewarded myself with a pizza, and have now gone back to working on my “supervillain make-a-wish” story. At this point, I have about 60,000 words and I’m not through the first part of Act II yet, so that’s looking good on word count at least. I’m always worried about ending up too short — “naga hide” and “fairy war” both ended up being a little shyer of 90,000 words than I would have liked. Which means either they were YA novels in disguise or I simply didn’t have enough material to make a full…

How are you all doing? I hope everyone’s enjoying Black Hole Son. I hope someone’s reading Black Hole Son. I’m about 3/4 of the way through the Neil Gaiman master class. A lot of useful information in the beginning, good for fleshing out my novel. I’m more confident about it now, but I’m wstill super nervous about fleshing it out because I don’t have an full outline yet. After I’m done with this I’ll move onto Felicia Day’s book. And then I thought there was a third one I was going to look at but I don’t remember what it is. Maybe after it I’ll start the outline for Terraforming…

Okay, so this is my first real blog post on my new website. Hope it goes okay. Been doing a lot of tweaking and plugins and Search Engine Optimization stuff and it’s not easy to go through one thousand posts and make sure they’re all okay. There’ll be plenty of busywork for me. Which is fine–it means I have something to do while watching my YouTube videos. So at this time, I’m supposed to be working on the second draft of Dwarves of Katie Elder. Six weeks have passed so the incubation period is finished. But… I’m not. Two reasons: I’m, of course, scared to start on such a big…

So I’m waiting the requisite six weeks before starting revisions on Dwarves of Katie Elder/The Mudbow Sisters/The Dwarf Sisters/???. In that time, I finished the first draft of a 30,000 erotica/porn thing that I started a while ago, but didn’t finish. My idea was to self-publish this and some other erotica stuff (since erotica is a hot seller on the eReaders) but under a different name. It’s experimental, so we’ll see if that pans out. Also, my domain name finally got past the 60 day waiting period, so now I think I can start operation on making my website again. I still believe in Defender, and I think about ways…

From now on, I think I’ll just title all my “I’m not dead” posts as link bait, because if I need to search for posts, it doesn’t do me much good to have everything in the list titled “update”. Yeah, I know, using work as an excuse is kinda lame, but it’s the truth.  At least I’m doing something I like now, something that keeps me busy and interested and I’m learning new things.  The writing is going well, still working on draft 1.5 of the White Mage Story/Defender, and it’s not too hard, as of now. To tell the truth, I wish I could write a better entry now,…

I haven’t made a post in more than 10 days and I feel bad about that, but I really don’t have anything to talk about.  I send queries, I send short stories.  I get rejections, and maybe I sell one.  I’m working on writing White Mage Story/Defender which is going to be way longer than it should be.  I have blog posts in the hopper, but I don’t know how writers can do it.  Maybe they pay more attention to goings on in the world than I do.  It’s not really that I’m dry for things to write about, I just don’t feel like writing them, or I need to…