Thanks to encouragement from some fellow SF Canada members, I participated in NaNoWriMo in November—not working on one specific project, but trying to make progress on some short stories and a poetry collection. Though I didn’t hit the NaNoWriMo target of 50,000 words, I did manage to more than triple my usual monthly output by writing more than 30,000 words, which I count as a success! I got the base draft completed for two novelettes as well as a couple of re-drafts and a start on a collection of non-speculative haibun. Now to work on refinements.
Recent Publications
A poem “Planets With Two
Moons” was published in Spaceports and Spidersilk, Hiraeth Publishing,
October 2020.
My review of Ursula Pflug’s Seeds and Other Stories appeared on The Future Fire web site November 20. The link is below:
http://reviews.futurefire.net/2020/11/pflug-seeds-and-other-stories.html
Looking back
on the books I’ve read over the course of the year, I’d say Seeds and Other Stories is up in my top three, along with Julie
Czerneda’s Mirage and Nina Munteanu’s A Diary in the Age of Water.
What I’m
Working On
During the
next month, I’ll be refining and sending out some of the raw work I put
together during November, as well as working on a submission for a specific call
for 1960’s detective stories. Researching for that has been a lot of fun so far!
Being born toward the end of the 1950’s, I was around for the ’60s, but have
needed some fact-checking to fill in the blanks.
I also have
some book reviews to complete and submit.
Coming Soon
A handful of
poems are due out in December, January, and February. More on those as they
appear.
