Overview

  • ongoing writing projects
    • weekly flash story GREAT has been edited and is done (for now)
    • read GREAT at an Open Mic event in Guelph
    • short story Corporeal Acquisitions is first draft complete
    • weekly flash story Maeve Murray's is nearing first draft complete
    • new weekly flash story has been started and is in the exploratory phase for concept
  • new blog post last week Collect > Outline > Draft
  • social links have been cleaned up and expanded

GREAT

I sent this piece out to several readers and received solid feedback on it. I also read the story (~1,700 words, so not really flash fiction) at an Open Mic event for writers in Guelph, Ontario. At a high level, I enjoyed the event. I am out of practice in front of an audience and will need to work on that. I also had some interesting conversations and got to hear a variety of narrative voices. I’ll have some more specific thoughts on the event in another post.

GREAT is fully edited and ready to go. The epub has been created and I was prepared to post it to Patreon. Then a random call for submissions showed up. I’m not chasing publication right now, but the submission theme perfectly matched the story. It felt like a missed opportunity if I didn’t submit. The down side is that the submission criteria requires first run projects. This means I can’t post this project to my Patreon just yet.

The call promises follow up on all submissions within 90 days. If the story isn’t selected, I’ll continue on getting this up on my Patreon at that time. If you’d really like to read this before then, drop me a message. I am active on all social media in my LinkStack.

Corporeal Acquisitions

This cosmic horror short story is now first draft complete. Current draft is just under 5,200 words.

A corporate acquisitions and mergers architect goes on solo retreat to a cabin on a private lake in the dead of winter. While planning her next takeover she encounters another predator with similar methods and appetites.

The next step is to edit and get it out to some readers for feedback.

I don’t have any plans for what to do with this story just yet. It’s largely dependent on feedback to determine next steps. I will get some samples of this up on my Patreon over the next two weeks.

Maeve Murray’s

This is the next story in the weekly flash fiction stories. I have a rough draft of this completed. It was originally intended to be a weird horror story. It’s still got those undertones, but morphed and is now fundamentally a relationship and break up story. I’m always a little surprised how things develop throughout the process of writing.

The goal for this is to get it cleaned up, out to readers, polished, and posted to Patreon for next Monday under the Singles Releases Collection.

New Weekly Flash Fiction

I’m still exploring ideas for the next weekly project. I try to avoid going into these with any pre-existing ideas. Finding an idea I want to write is part of this process. I’m currently toying with entities colonizing the individual and dissolution of self against a colonizing super organism.

I don’t know if that’s where I’ll end up, but it’s what has caught my attention currently.

Collect > Outline > Draft

New blog post last week Collect > Outline > Draft. This walks through what my current writing process looks like to get from the blank page to a completed draft. It also details how and why my current system developed.

I’ve resurrected my Bookwyrm account to accompany my GoodReads account.

I’ve also created a LinkStack page to keep all my links in a single place. This should be considered the source of truth for where to find me on the internet.