Progress Report March/April 2026

Sloughed-off a little on the four-pages-a-day-thing but I did keep up the writing. Wrote/finished about six short-stories. Mostly the weekly/monthly flash fiction stories.

Wrote a Petrarchan Sonnet as an homage to the Turkey at Central and Greenwich in Wichita, who has apparently died. Was just going to do a poem, but the sonnet idea hit me. Doesn’t rhyme but what the hey. (Yes, this was a real bird who made the intersection and the shops around it his own!)

Got a Queer Sci-Fi Column about done and started another one. I like having several month’s worth of columns already written and I’m behind on that.

Sent off at least one story to a market and I got at least one other story rejected. As I have said before, that’s all progress too.

The big news is that I am simultaneously working on two novelette/novella length stories. The YA sci-fi story (Which could become a short novel!) which has it’s origins in an idea from forty years ago that I talked about in last period’s report, and a (Definitely not YA!) semi-erotic romance whose idea just banged into my head a few weeks ago. Making progress on both of them, at the same time! (Something I didn’t used to do!)

And the YA Sci-Fi story is approaching being finished. I just have to pull some sections together and write more on the middle and I’ll have a first draft! That one is definitely Novella length.

Again, whew! And that’s about it for now! ——-jeff baker April 20, 2026