February 7 Writing Time: 0h Word Count: 0 words While I’ve been preparing for this short story contest, the deadline for a six-page paper has been rapidly approaching. Who knew?… Read more

Writing Time: 2.5hr Word Count: N/A (editing day) Worked on Alice & Harry (now under consideration for a new name…). I changed a lot. The story is still not quite… Read more

Writing Time: 2.5h Word Count: N/A (editing day) Something about “Alice & Harry” feels incredibly sensitive — just one sentence or word in the wrong place seems to throw the… Read more

Writing Time: 2h Word Count: N/A (editing day) I’m trying to choose a story to submit to the ACM Nick Adams Short Story Contest on February 8th. Today I went… Read more

Writing Time: 1.5h Word Count: 1524 I worked on “Beyond the Walls” on our drive home from Grand Junction, CO. We passed through a narrow pass during a heavy snowstorm — my… Read more

Writing Time: 1h Word Count: 454  After driving two hundred miles and five hours from Colorado Springs, playing a hockey game against Colorado Mesa University (we won 3-2), and eating… Read more

Writing Time: 3h Word Count: 1165 Mira liked the six page version of our sketch; I liked the four page one. After an hour, we managed to settle on a… Read more

I would like to take this opportunity to state my opinion that group projects should be against the law. On an unrelated note, my writing time today was consumed by… Read more

Writing Time: 1h Word Count: 447 All this time, I’ve been writing “Beyond the Walls” with only a loose idea of what is at the heart of the story —… Read more

Writing Time: 1h Word Count: N/A (editing day) I didn’t know how to move forward with my novel today, so I went backwards, instead. I removed five pages and rearranged… Read more