I’ve been pretty bad about promoting my Clarion West Write-a-thon participation this year, but I’m starting up the marketing machine now. If you’re not sick of hearing about it by the time August rolls around, well, I’m doing something wrong….
Category: writeathon
I am on a black highway at night
This week, some good news: Stepto has come out of his coma and seems to be recovering well. If you’re feeling charitable, you can donate to help the family with medical and travel expenses. At times like this, I think…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Bayla Changes Her Tune”
Yet another Write-a-Thon sponsor request: two of the characters in this week’s story are named after our cats (one deceased, one living). The setting is actually an idea I had a while ago–from a dream, natch–and may yet become a…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Unintended Consequences”
This week’s story includes a character name suggestion from Write-a-Thon sponsor Matt, and was inspired in part by (in no particular order) Freakonomics, Exegesis, WarGames, Google Code Jam, Asimov’s robot stories, and The Consumerist. Read “Unintended Consequences” at 512 Words…
Friday Flash Fiction: “To Cruise Or Not To Cruise”
This week’s story was inspired by: an idea from Corby, one of my Clarion Write-a-Thon sponsors; JoCo Cruise Crazy II (about which I am still undecided); my own novel-in-progress, which mostly takes place aboard an Earth-to-Mars cruise spaceship; and one…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Kangaroo Fails”
As noted elsewhere, this week’s story is an excerpt from the novel I’m currently rewriting. So don’t worry if some things don’t completely make sense. Read “Kangaroo Fails” at 512 Words or Fewer ALSO: You still have just two days…
The End is Near… for the Clarion 2011 Write-a-Thon
This is it! The sixth and final week of the Clarion UCSD workshop, and also the last days when you can donate to this year’s Write-a-Thon. Why should you care? I can’t say it any better than Mishell Baker already…
Write-a-Thon 2011, Day 32: movin’ right along
(LJ is still sucking wind–for me, anyway. YMMV.) New Words: 1,096Current Total: 29,342 wordsGoal: 43,008 words in 42 days Breakdown: +583+513 on two drafts of this week’s 512 story, which is set in the same world as the novel-in-progress. I…
Write-a-Thon 2011, Day 31: over the hill
(LiveJournal is still down. WTF?) New Words: 991Current Total: 28,246 wordsGoal: 43,008 words in 42 days Breakdown: +509 on the novel breakdown, +482 on notes for this week’s 512. It’s now week 5 of the write-a-thon, and apparently I’m one…