Category Archives: Progress Reports

Mystery and Progress Reports, May 4/5, 2020, by Jeff Baker

I realized that I haven’t been writing many mysteries in the last couple of years, so I wrote out a short list of some unfinished ones and plan to finish one or two by the beginning of Fall.  Did some … Continue reading

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Progress Report: April 30-May 3rd or thereabouts, from Jeff Baker.

Last couple of days I plotted out a story that’s due by the end of August for a Halloween anthology. Even though I said I wouldn’t get in an anthology deadline like that again until a few other things straighten … Continue reading

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Today’s Progress Report by Jeff Baker (4/29/20)

Wrote about a page (in various chunks on different parts of the ms.) and now I have about 1,100 words. Not bad, for something that started out as an idea from a dream that I wrote down about four years … Continue reading

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More dirt on progress, April 26/27, 2020 by Jeff Baker

It’s about 5:30 in the morning, April 27, 2020. Yesterday (26th) I worked of the Friday Flash Fiction story for this week (“Midnight Basketball”) and surprised myself by writing the closing line on “A Fistful of Garlic.” I also did … Continue reading

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Progress Report, April 25, 2020 by Jeff Baker

Wrote some on one of the three or four stories I have in progress, and started next week’s Friday Flash Fiction story, based on a dream I had a while back. Oh, and I added some notes to another story. … Continue reading

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Progress Report, April 23/24, 2020 by Jeff Baker.

Did some plotting on the full-length Bryce Going story and then wrote about two pages. Also re-titled it as “Rest on the Flight Into Egypt.” the other title didn’t have anything to do with the story and I couldn’t work … Continue reading

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Short Progress Report, for April 21, 2020 by Jeff Baker

Managed to do a few paragraphs on a couple of stories. And actually rewrote the opening of one of them. That’s all!

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More Progress Reports, Jeff Baker, April 20, 2020.

The planned daily (or near-daily) writing progress report has good news tonight (or early this morning—I keep odd hours!) I finished this week’s Friday Flash Fics story, and it looks good! I also worked on the major story I started … Continue reading

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Finishing Stuff; a Progress Report by Jeff Baker, 4/19/20. (Note; I haven’t finished anything!)

April 19, 2020 I promised myself a long time ago that I wouldn’t start any new story until I’d finished what I was working on. Largely, I’ve kept to that, except for a few starting paragraphs that I typed up … Continue reading

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Progress Report (as of September 14, 2017.)

Spending some of my week’s vacation typing and writing. The typing mainly being the longer story “The Wrong Side of the Tracks,” which is partly-finished in handwritten chunks in my notebook. As I type I’ve filled in a few sections … Continue reading

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