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Dragged myself to the drawing table yesterday and MADE myself draw something.


It feels like months since I did any drawing (it looks like it too). This is, I'm told, a very 'Dad Joke' thing that grew out of a post I was making on a forum. First bit of creative 'inspiration' for ages. 2020 has not been good for my art-fu mojo.
 
I can't submit the Cascor novelette, finished at 13,500 words, because Fantasy & Science Fiction have suspended submissions during the change-over from editor Charlie Finlay to Sheree Renée Thomas.

So I decided to revive my corpulent master criminal of Old Earth's penultimate age, Luff Imbry. I'm six thousand words into a new adventure, where Luff finds he is traveling under a false identity that appears to be that of a notorious embezzler. There's a ten million SDU reward for the bad guy. Then the plot thickens.
 
No doubt the Cascor novelette will find a home later?
Zero writing done in about four months due to being bogged down with editing and proofing. Um, proof reading then editing. Well, I have been working on a sort of Style Guide, but I hope that's not fiction.
 
9700 words on the Imbry novelette. Solved a plot hole problem yesterday. One last scene to write, then tidy it up and send it somewhere. Lightspeed, I think.
 
Finished and polished the Imbry novelette, now titled "Arboghasz Dal Axander Rides Again,." at 11,500 words. One more read-through tomorrow and off it goes.
 
I’ve finished “Arboghasz Dal Axander Rides Again,” an 11.8k-word novelette that brings back my corpulent, far-future master criminal, Luff Imbry, and sent it to Lightspeed magazine.

Next, I think I’ll do a short Baldemar piece and send it to Ed Willett, who will launch a Kickstarter campaign in January to publish a collection of stories by authors who have been interviewed for his excellent podcast, Shapers of Worlds.
 
Finally got a good start that I like to my Cold War Naval fiction story, just need some tips to help me keep it flowing, is someone able to give me a few tips if I send them some excerpts? Done 200 odd words that I'm going to use.
 
Now at 2200 words on the Baldemar story, which has turned into a story about his old henchmanning mentor, Oldo. The plot is well set up now. I just have to figure out where it's going. And how to get there.
 
3000 words and I know where it's going now. Always a fascinating process to see a story come into focus.
 
Well, all I have is that my first short story collection "Mystics and Misfits" is available on Amazon as a Kindle book. I am hoping to finally sit down and set up the physical book format this week so that you can get print on demand versions. I have begun working on a new collection that will be called "Vapor Visions" with an anchor story titled "Mist Memories".
 
Congrats to all on your progress. Just wanted to put up here that I've had an illness problem (non-Covid) this month (lack of progress,) which is why the contest threads were a bit of a mess. Anyway, I am back and people can flag me down if necessary, except when it comes to fixing the voting polls for the contests because I have no idea how to do it -- that's Hobbit's department.

Carry on with the regular program. :)
 
One of those I really don't know why I think this is funny but I do (and don't worry if you don't) strips:

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Finished the Baldemar/Oldo story at 6450 words. Can't send it in, because it was written for a Kickstarter-funded anthology, Shapers of Worlds 2, and the fundraising campaign won't start for another couple of months.
 
Just finished editing in annotations and a partial re-write of ‘The Wooing of Marion’, about 147,000 words and it's Celtic Otherworld XIV (or book #14). Set approximately next year. Likely release in 2023. ‘Dwarves and Rooks’, ‘Goths and Rooks’ and ‘Jewels and Rooks’ all come first and just need a bit of polish. ‘Goths and Rooks’ is certainly 2019 on Earth and the start of 2020 is only on the Otherworlds.
 
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