So: I expected to have more written by now.
I should have had at least 6,000 more words written; instead I’ve been struggling to hit 2,000 all month. Since I’m pretty unlikely to make it ...
2020-01-27 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post…or lack thereof. Sorry; it's been a less productive month for a variety of reasons than I'd expected (or wished).
I'm still going to try to have something posted from Kani's story this mon...
2020-01-21 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn the introduction to the still-untitled Kani story, the last bullet point in my list of “things I still don’t know” was “whether this is even going somewhere at all.” This is still sort...
2019-12-30 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe clouds had started to break during the time Kani was in the coffee shop, drizzle replaced by sunbeams, the air strong with pavement-after-rain scent. The coyote took a circuitous route to the b...
2019-12-26 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostNote: I originally planned to put two scenes together for the first post, but each one is pretty big, so I'm going to follow this post up in a few days with the next scene. 2019-12-22 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
So. Tomorrow I plan to do something I haven’t done in a long time, at least intentionally: publish part of a story that’s still in unfinished first draft state. First, though, a little story ab...
2019-12-22 03:52:23 +0000 UTC View PostThis is not the story I planned to write. It’s a silly image that leapt into my head and wouldn’t let go until I wrote it to get it out. (I’m not sure it worked.) This is a companion...
2019-11-30 21:56:53 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Thanksgiving to those celebrating it (or, if you already have, I hope yours was happy)!
If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know I’ve been having a bit of writer’s block t...
2019-11-28 18:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostSo: no updates at the moment, I'm afraid, but I have many ideas that I'm hoping I can move on. If I don't get anything out this month I'll cancel the payment processing for November, though. I may ...
2019-11-20 02:41:05 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, I’m sorry I didn’t get this post out earlier in the week; I intended to, but my “real” job had me working at a trade show and leaving me unusually wiped.
While there wasn’t u...
2019-11-01 15:30:54 +0000 UTC View PostAs the screenplay wraps up this week, here’s some thoughts on what’s ahead.
First off, since last July, when Saida & Autumn started, I’ve managed…
Gabrielle has some sharp questions for Harry, but is interrupted by a crisis. While she finds herself confronting the police, Harry searches through Mirasol's lab notebooks.
Note: this is...
2019-08-07 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHarry convinces a reluctant Gabrielle to take Mirasol in as a temporary boarder. As the two women try to learn about one another, the vixen begins to wonder just what game her nephew is playing. 2019-07-31 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Harry urges Mirasol to make nice with the Underwoods. When she reluctantly visits, she finds them in a literal fight—and no one expects what happens next.
Since screenplays don't have chapt...
2019-07-24 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe opening scene of Red Savina, where we meet most of the main players. It's a grand party at the Underwood Estate, but not everyone is enjoying themselves…
After some deliberatio...
2019-07-17 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post(Because this seems like a good post before I begin serializing one.)
The title makes this sound either more complicated or more pretentious (why not both!) than it truly is. It’s not d...
2019-07-16 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve finished the outline! The screenplay itself is underway, although just five pages in. I’m still working out how big each weekly posting is going to be; I’ll probably have a better sense ...
2019-07-06 00:34:47 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the many quirks of screenplay writing is one I obliquely referred to in the last update: they have a specific formatting style that goes back many, many decades. As the world moved ...
2019-06-29 19:32:54 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I’m generally not a “pantser” (that is, someone who tends to write stories “by the seat of their pants,” I’m not generally an outliner. With few excepti...
2019-06-22 18:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostIn “The mad science of story structure,” I talked about—yes—story structure. I got into character arc vs. plot...
2019-06-13 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSo, confession time: while I “knew” the story in the way it feels like everybody knows the story, I hadn’t read Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...
2019-05-31 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn my introductory post, I talked about the three-act formula for screenplays. Countless books about it have appeared over the years, and more recently “story development” software has popped u...
2019-05-20 18:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo if I’m going to write a screenplay, what’s it going to be about?
I mean, it’s going to be about a giantess, because hi, hello, have we met? Okay, beyond that. As I put it on...
2019-05-12 19:07:15 +0000 UTC View Post…I’m going to pull a screenplay out of a hat.
(“That trick never works!”)
Screenplays are interesting beasts: unless you’re doing a weird experimental art house film, a movie ...
2019-05-01 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe final word count for Mensura College: Saida & Autumn as posted is 78,375, which makes it far and away the longest macrophile story that I've written. (Only one non-macrophile work ...
2019-04-19 15:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs Saida & Autumn wraps up, I’ve been thinking about what to do next—and about what worked and didn’t work for me this time.
This was my first try at a long “slice of lif...
2019-04-05 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI'm still thinking about how (or if) to restructure the rewards at various levels; this is mostly about doing something other than the monthly chat for $9+ patrons, as that doesn't seem to be somet...
2019-01-28 16:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year! I'm taking this week off to work on the next chapter or two of the serial and to think about what's coming next. I'd really like to hear from patrons abut what else you might want t...
2019-01-01 19:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHi, everyone! As you know, the holidays are fast approaching, like a rampaging kaiju in a Santa hat. I usually travel to be with family for the last couple of weeks of the year, and this year is no ex...
2018-12-10 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt was only sheer luck—at least, so he thought at the time—that Tyler overheard the security guards trying to throw the trick-or-treaters off the mansion grounds.
The fox just happened to be wal...
2018-10-31 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post