Ooh, the WIP meme is going around again. If there's anything I'm qualified to meme about, it's WIPs. Here are excerpts from the seven files I have open right now. "Liegeman" part 5: "Pryce? Not sure...smoke in his father's study. He ought to think of some message to give her through his father. What could he say? Sorry about the last year and a half, Mum, off again now. Just his love to her, then

...is a growth toward fully realizable works - works that become real in full illumination of all that you know.  Including all that you know about yourself." This story feels like it is still so many drafts from being finished.  But I'm going to ride it out to the end.  I'm going to keep pushing myself past my comfort zone.  Not this week, though.  This week I'm going to get a pedicure and sit in the...

...on my favourite sites (such as Eleatica —check it out), I have no excuse to wriggle out of rewriting some of my stories. It's an exercise that I'm hopeless at. I end up with half a dozen chopped-up drafts before shoving the whole lot into a virtual drawer for a few weeks, only to go through the whole process again and ending up more-or-less with what I've written before. The re-write for Tree of...

I saw a variant of this floating around, and thought of this older version I did once: When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around...be? He felt a thrill in his chest and his hands shook the tiniest bit. He'd wished for adventure, hadn't he? And here he had one. He gazed into the thing was definitely not a police box in utter joy.

Upon hearing that the representative and agent for my affairs in New York City, one Mr. Austin Williams , has finished reviewing my short-story  cum novelette, "The Soulsucker of Aneuma", I decided...shortly. Please see to it that I have a Live-Journal account set up." Charles, ever the dutiful servant, obeyed. Mr. WIlliams, however, has disappointed me thus far. At least in this regard.

The world will end now, I've actually written something vaguely constructive. Behold here the first part of the first chapter  of the first story in the first fandom! Okay, that made no sense, but.......out there evidently have Root and Vinyaya meeting when both of them are  in  the LEP-oh, how to decide....... I'll post regarding that someday. I don't think it came out the way I wanted it to.....

Here are my statistics for January: 6,200 new words of fiction written this month. 1 13 first drafts currently in progress. 2 1 first draft currently "ripening" before second draft. 3 0 second drafts currently in progress 1 second draft currently in the hands of "trusted readers." 3 third drafts currently in progress. 4 0 third drafts currently awaiting polishing. 0...

I'm not quite up to the suggested length, but I might try to get away with a version of this. What say you? Internet Land, are there any questions you want me to answer - not so much work stuff, but about...for having to use so many platitudes, but almost everything you need to make the best of a trying situation is present in our vernacular, and the rest, for the most part, is up to you. Good luck

I really don’t know where to begin with this. Don’t give them an inch – don’t admit you’re an amateur, because they resent the fact they had to hire you on that basis. Once they get a leg up on you, you’re...I embark on my quest to become educated. I have to show people that I have some talent, some value, something to contribute to this world, both for my sake and that of others. Your mileage may vary

Is that the final two chapters of the novel you wrote 17 months ago in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? Getting mighty sick of this. I have come to accept the state of things, as a matter...new identity, maybe there will be some type of amnesty for the scavengers. Maybe I'll do some jail time and bring a few stories of my own. Maybe it will be great. I'm not counting on it being easy.