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Progress Report: November/December 2024 from Jeff Baker. December 20, 2024.

Progress Report: November/December 2024 Not a lot on the progress front, other than the usual flash fictions and my end-of-the-year stuff. Did some synopsizing and playing around with ideas. Wrote one column and started a couple of others. Didn’t really … Continue reading

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“Rubber Boogie Bugga Burpers…” Uh, The Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Draws for December 2024, from Mike Mayak. (December 2, 2024.)

First, here’s the prompts for the December 2024 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge, the last one of the year! Then my usual long-winded explanation: A Romance Involving Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers Set in A Haunted House Now, on to the details. … Continue reading

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Progress Report, August/September 2024 from Jeff Baker. September 21, 2024.

Progress Report for August/September 2024 Again, not too much progress. Wrote the usual flash fiction stories and did a QSF column when a subject for it came up. Plotted out a couple of stories and started writing them up. (handwriting … Continue reading

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Progress Report For July/August 2024 from Jeff Baker. (August 21, 2024.)

Photo By Amy Tharp Progress Report for July/August 2024 from Jeff Baker Okay, not much progress to report this month either. I didn’t work on “Love’s Not Time’s Fool,” writing-wise anyway but I proofread it and did a couple of … Continue reading

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Progress Report from Jeff Baker for October, 2023. (October 21, 2023.)

Photo by Amy Tharp First Off: I’ve actually been reading! I’ve gotten to where I have to push myself to do that, but I have! In the last month I’ve read a couple of the stories in James Moran’s “Fear … Continue reading

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Just News and a “Thank You,” from Jeff Baker. June 2nd, 2023

I just discovered that I have 161 subscribers to these posts! That’s nice! Thank you all so much! These last years have been rough and the writing has helped. It’s nice to find I have an audience! Again, with all … Continue reading

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Amazingly, Some Progress. Progress Report from Jeff Baker. May 14, 2023.

I’m seriously amazed I’ve made any progress writing during the last few months. I was taking it really slow, I guess, after my Mom passed away this past December. I had to get a bunch of things done, including getting … Continue reading

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Hanging On; a Progress Report from Jeff Baker. June 23, 2022

Hanging On; a Progress Report by Jeff Baker A while back, when I started posting these reports my intention was to keep those regular readers informed on what I’m writing/doing. And lately, as of June 2022, that hasn’t been a … Continue reading

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Flash Fiction Draw Challenge for April, 2022!

Mike Mayak, AKA Jeff Baker First, let’s get to the prompts for April 2022. Then the long-winded explanation. A Sports Story In a Piano Factory Involving a Pair of Handcuffs Hi! I’m Jeff Baker https://www.facebook.com/Jeff-Baker-Author-176267409096907 and I also write as Mike Mayak. https://mobile.twitter.com/MikeMayakAuthorContinue reading

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Post-Christmas Progress Report from Jeff Baker. (December 26, 2021)

This is the first one of these reports I’ve posted since early November and I’ve made some progress writing-wise but not as much as I’d hoped. But I have made up for it recently. First: I’ve written the weekly and … Continue reading

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