Well, I surprised myself. I kept my New Year’s Resolution and am writing about four pages a day. It doesn’t happen every day and sometimes it comes off as just a couple of pages or even a few lines or I’ll edit and send off some stuff. Or, like last night, I’ll just plot/synopsize something I’m working on. So far since the last Progress Report I’ve finished fourteen stories, some of them full-length, some flashes and about half of the full-length stories I finished are things I had unfinished in my files. Plus I worked on several stories that aren’t finished yet, and did one of my Queer Sci-Fi columns.

So, the four pages thing is a great motivator and some of the stories I’ve finished since starting this routine in mid-December I’ve sent off to markets.

Fingers crossed! (Which could make it difficult to type!!)

That’s about it for now!

——-jeff baker February 21, 2026