Interesting day. Yesterday I left "Woody and June vs. the Grand Canyon" at over 5,000 words and not done yet, thinking I might have taken a wrong turn. So, I set it aside and started a new story, "The Disappearing Neighborhood." This is based on an idea I had at the beginning of...

Two stories out the door! Story #1, "Woody and June vs. the Fungus-Head Zombies," and story #2, the sci-fi android story now with a title,"Daisy’s Heart". I read "Daisy’s Heart" to Aleia this morning and there were tears--a good sign for this story--and she helped me find the tit...

Found the end of the second story (scfi with an android), cleaned it up, and it's ready to read to Aleia. Cleaned up story 1 (Woody and June vs the Fungus-Head Zombies) and read it to Aleia--she's liking these and zombies aren't her thing, so that's a good sign. The fixing of the...

Busy day with work and life, so writing was slower as expected. Started with a line that came to me when I was going to sleep last night ("I was six the first time I wished I was an android.") and got about two-thirds of the way through the story. I had been working on an android...

Wow! I think I really wanted to do this thing. Up too early and lots of writing. I grabbed a story start for something I really wanted to write and in a morning session, evening session, and during a few breaks wrote 4,000 pretty clean words and made it to the end of the story.