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Blueblood is goanna be long…
The title really says it all, doesn’t it? Well, maybe I should elaborate a bit. I’ve been plugging away at Blueblood: I’m not moving as fast as I’d maybe like, but still going. I’m at about the 65,000-word mark now; conventional wisdom in today’s market says a sci-fi novel should be about 100,000 words, maybe…
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Writing Update – January 16, 2024
Oof. I knew it’d been a long time since I’d written here last, but two months? Yikes. Sorry, guys. In my defence, I’ve had a lot going on: plugging away at my thesis, working away at my novels, and now applying to PhD programs. Plus, all the little everyday things: cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, shoveling…
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Writing Update – November 16, 2023
Well, BS&K just celebrated its first birthday not too long ago! And, well, the site and the Instagram page haven’t seen much growth over the past year, but I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. I’ve never been great at marketing myself, and even if I were, I don’t have much to sell. No published…
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Can-Con 2023
Well, this weekend I crossed a new milestone: I attended my first fiction convention! I’ve toyed with the idea of going to a con for some time; of course, living in Canada, I’m relatively isolated from big events like that, most of which happen down in the States. Even those we do have are mostly…
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First Draft’s Done! What’s Next?
Well, after over a month of hard work, I achieved one of my goals today. I finally finished the first draft of The Procurers. This one’s been a long time coming. The original idea was for this series to all be one book, titled The 8th Realm. I started writing that around New Year’s 2021,…
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Writing Update – September 27, 2023
Hey, everyone. I know, I know. It’s been a while since I posted here. It’s not because I’ve stopped caring about the blog, or about updating those of you who check in here. That’s not the case. I’ve just been super busy. A lot of that has been good busy, though. At school, I’ve been…
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Writing Update – August 26, 2023
Oh my. Well. It seems I’ve neglected my writing updates for a little while: it’s been…scrolls through my page…over a month since the last one! Whoops. I truly didn’t intend to go an entire month without posting here: between work, my thesis and working on my books, though, I’ve been busy. That, and as I…
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Writing Update – July 23, 2023
Back again! And though this summer has crawled past, it has still indeed crawled past…and now we’re almost through July. Funny how time seems to move incomprehensibly fast even when it feels like it’s moving slow as molasses. Anyway! You’re not here to listen to me go on about time. If you’re reading this, you…
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Writing Update – July 2, 2023
Oh, the cursed summer. I’ve never been big on summer; I’m not sure if I’ve said that before in this space, but it’s the truth. Summer tends to be bad for my productivity; ironically, I tend to be more productive when I have a more regimented outside schedule to keep. Thus, when classes are on,…
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Writing Update – June 3, 2023
OK, so…it’s been a while, hasn’t it? Yeah, I know, I’ve been slacking on the writing updates lately. When I started this blog, I was determined to keep posting every week, and for the first little while I was good on that front. Lately, though – really since the summer got going – that’s gotten…