Overview

  • ongoing writing projects
    • weekly flash fiction These Are Not My Memories added to Patreon
    • weekly flash fiction GREAT is draft complete and out to readers for feedback
    • short story Corporeal Acquisitions being written, currently in first draft
    • new weekly flash fiction started and in the exploratory phase
  • set up blog at exsilium.heavyliftingindustries.com
  • new accounts set up on Patreon and GoodReads

These Are Not My Memories

New flash fiction piece posted to Patreon. It’s free to read and includes an epub download option for paid Patreon members.

This is the first in what I’m calling the Patreon Singles Releases. Every week I’ll be writing a new piece of flash fiction and posting it to my Patreon this way.

GREAT

GREAT is my next weekly piece. It was completed over the weekend. Just awaiting feedback from readers and then this will go through the Patreon release process.

It was originally written as a three minute cosmic horror short film about right wing indoctrination via random video chat. I liked it as a script and I like it even more as a short story.

My weekly writing is supposed to be flash fiction. GREAT has settled in around 1750 words. A little bit more than what I was aiming for. That said, I’m more interested in following the story than I am an arbitrary word count. That may change in the future, but I’ll worry about that when I get there.

Corporeal Acquisitions

Another cosmic horror short story. It is continuing forward. I know the entire story at this point. I’ve collected all my little bits and pieces into a coherent, high level outline. I’ve started working through the outline on an initial draft.

The outline, in bullet points, was roughly 3500 words. As I’m working through it’s not growing too much. I’m about a third of the way through the first draft and it’s only grown by about 600 words. Expect the completed initial draft to be less than 6000 words total.

I’m aiming to have a polished first draft ready for readers before May 1st.

Untitled Patreon Singles Release

The next weekly flash project has been started. I am currently exploring ideas. I don’t have anything ready to go and am starting from scratch. It lets me work through what’s top of mind and see if there are any stories in there I’m interested in telling.

Published Blog

Set up this blog using hugo to generate a static site. It required a little bit of configuration, but not much. I’m pretty happy with the implementation. I’ve used Jekyll in the past. It was fine, but hugo feels cleaner to me. There’s a lot of similarity between to two.

I’m currently hosting this under my heavyliftingindustries.com domain. It will likely move at some point to its own domain. I’m not in a rush to do that. A new domain will come when I’ve got the income to pay for it.

Patreon and GoodReads Accounts

As I’m working on moving forward with writing, I’m setting up some new accounts to supplement that work. This is being done to have a single lane of focus. I have historically had a lot of interests, hobbies, and paths I’ve chased down. I’d prefer to minimize pollution across those streams.

A Patreon account has been created. The first piece of writing has gone up. It’s a flash fiction piece called These Are Not My Memories. It’s posted in a regular post under the members free tier. I’ve also created an epub download version that is available patrons under the paid tier.

A GoodReads account was created to eventually claim an author account. I’ll get there eventually.

My Mastodon account is a notable exception here. I’m continuing to use that as a primary account and I don’t see any real need to create a dedicated Mastodon account for writing.