Celebrate the Little Victories

There’s a writing-based group I track where folks are encouraged to post celebratory screenshots when they finish a draft. It’s a nice little ritual, and so I’m borrowing it to celebrate a moment here: Yesterday, after twenty days and thirty-six thousand words of drafting, I typed <<the end>> on the first draft of a new […]

On Skeleton Drafts and Pantsing

This morning, around 10:00 AM, I finished the skeleton draft of a new novella about phantom punches, MMA, and a sailor who desperately wants to impress…well, pretty much everyone, including the reader. It started out as a project that drew inspiration from Robert Howard’s Sailor Steve Costigan stories, but quickly became its own thing. If […]