Progress Report February/March 2026

Kept to my New Year’s resolution and wrote/finished six stories during this past period. Also did at least one QSF column. Didn’t write four pages every day, but I did some days. And I just vegged-out and didn’t write on a few days. I did have a few days busy doing something else.

Worked a little on “The Forest”/”Under The Gaze Of the Owl,” which started as flash fictions for the old Monday Flash Fiction Facebook page.

Speaking of which, I wrote the intro and part of the story for my tenth anniversary story of doing the Flash Fics about every week. (Yes, any more I do the anniversary story ahead of time. But it’s not quite cheating, I did the story in a few hours.)

Speaking of wonky stuff; I came up with the title “Flying Saucer Cat,” which was going to be a Friday Flash story but it got too long and didn’t have a flying saucer in it, so I changed the title. Then I tried writing a Friday Flash story with that title and thought of a better title: “The Little Dog Laughed to See Such A Sport.”

The big news writing-wise this period was that I started work on a longer story I’ve been meaning to get to for years. It’ll probably be a novella or a YA novel. I had the inspiration for it forty years ago…

And I did send off a couple of stories during this period. That’s progress, too.

The “Four Pages A Day” thing is a very successful motivator, in my opinion. And getting motivated was always one of my big weaknesses.

That’s about it for now!

——-jeff baker March 21, 2026