Summary Back to the scifi story I started last night, this one has a good, solid title: "With Light Years Between Us." Made some progress early, but something wasn't right. Realized I was...

Summary Started up on a new scifi story early, taking on the blank page again--that is, starting with nothing, not even an idea before getting to the computer. What popped out was an idea I had worked...

Summary I had trouble sleeping last night and had this whisper of an idea that felt like it would be interesting and short. By the time I got up, my mind was derailed by worries about cultural...

Summary Back to "A Long, Hard Fall" this morning. I think I was tired at the end of the day yesterday (5,000 words is a lot for me) and needed to clean up the plot a bit, and the climax got...

Summary Decided to go back to the world of Shuffled Off and have some fun with my ghost detectives Walter and Emily (their first case is in Life After) in a story called "A Long, Hard Fall."...