Here’s the latest Progress Report on the writing since the last one of these I did in early July.

I wrote a couple of Queer Sci-Fi columns, including one for next month.

Wrote up a bunch of flash fictions, including the weekly ones.

I finished working on two full-length stories aimed at anthologies. Finished writing one, finished editing one down when the market changed publishers and wordcounts.

Plotted out a few full-length stories and started writing at least two of them.

I almost hate to say it, but I’m relieved to be out from under the two deadlines for the end of July and the end of August. For the rest of the year I’m going to avoid other people’s deadlines for longer fiction. (Not that it wasn’t exhilarating and a helluva lot of fun!)

Started plotting and revising something longer that started as a story fragment I wrote about fifteen years ago. (More on that much, much later!)

Worked on stories aimed at RoMMantic Reads and had two stories published there. (Thanks Fiona!)

Found out that one of my flash stories will be in “Rise,” the new Queer Sci-Fi anthology.

Wrote notes for a bunch of other stuff including a poem.

I’m writing pretty regularly and I seem to have acquired some much-needed discipline over the years. Even so, I seem to have discarded or loosened my ironclad rule (which helped a lot!) against starting a new story until I finish the one I’m working on. A decade or two ago I would have had a notebook or Word Processor full of good starts to unfinished stories. Lately that doesn’t seem to be my problem.

This discipline would have come in handy about thirty years ago when I started trying to write!

That’s about it for now!

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