Category Archives: Progress Reports

Totally floored! I read over a story I’d started in 1999, “A Dinner At Megacles” and realized I only needed to do one descriptive scene in the middle and the first draft would be finished! Now, I just have to … Continue reading →

As usual, I wrote the weekly and monthly flash fictions. I posted my tenth anniversary Friday Flash Fiction story (which I’d written a couple of months earlier) and gave myself a break for a couple of weeks on the Friday … Continue reading →

Progress Report April/May 2026 Not as many things finished or even worked on but I’ve worked on a couple of way longer stories. Most notably the YA-Sci-Fi/Science-Fantasy novella I mentioned last month. Finished it and sent it off. 20,000+ words! … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

As I said last time, my New Year’s Resolution is to write every day. Inspired by Frederik Pohl who wrote four pages a day for decades. I won’t hit that number but I plan to try and kick it into … Continue reading →

Photo by Amy Tharp November/December 2025 A little more progress to report, but not much. I wrote the December QSF column, a rant actually, and then wrote another one so I am ahead about a month on the columns. Wrote … Continue reading →

Wrote the usual flash fictions for the weekly and monthly challenges. Wrote a couple of Queer Sci-Fi columns. Worked a little bit on plotting out some of the longer stories which I will try to get finished by Spring of … Continue reading →