One word at a time
I shouldn’t be disappointed with a 1000-word morning, given that I have only about 75 minutes to write by the time I get started. Thirty percent lower than yesterday, but still pretty good. Three months of 1000-word days and I’d have a 90,000 word manuscript.
I guess it’s just that the story didn’t flow quite as [...]
Happiness is…
…generating new output for the first time in a couple of weeks.
The past couple of weeks have been tied up with revising this and that, tidying, organizing, handling submissions, things of that nature. All very important, and all “productive,” but this morning I wrote new material, and it felt like I’d been injected with a [...]
I clean my gun and dream of…
I finished my editing read-through of the first chapters of the novel-in-progress-that-I’ve-ignored-for-far-too-long this morning (that’s a working title). I made a lot of stylistic revisions and a very few story corrections, and I’m thrilled with the results so far. 14,000 words or 52 pages, which means I’m about 1/6 of the way through. All the [...]
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all the same
I watched the last two remaining episodes in my Doctor Who #5 “marathon” last night. First came Castrovalva, which was Peter Davison’s debut. A neat enough episode. I loved the MC Escher nature of Castrovalva, where you could go down several flights of stairs and end up where you started. My office as a grad [...]
The Doctor has left the building
I spent a lot of time polishing my Doctor Who short story Leap Second this weekend. I hadn’t read it in about a week and found a couple of inconsistencies and several places to sharpen up the writing, plus incorporate a couple of suggestions from my test audience. This morning I read through it one [...]
Awake
It’s Friday, the day when a cumulative lack of sleep usually has me feeling groggy and looking forward to Saturday, the one day of the week when I can usually sleep in. However, I managed an extra hour or so of sleep last night, so I’m actually feeling quite alert and oriented. Go figure.
I was [...]
From Russia…
…by DHL. (how many of you continued mentally “…with love”?)
My daughter called a while ago to say she’d signed for a DHL package from Moscow. I know exactly what it is: the Russian version of The Road to the Dark Tower. How cool. I can’t wait to see it. My thanks go out to Sergey [...]
Blindsided
Fortunately, the rains have abated and the floodwaters downtown have receded for the most part, though I expect there are some people still mopping up and drying out. The ground is saturated, so any more water was just going to sit on the surface and flow, so it’s a good thing that we don’t seem [...]
Na Na · Na Na Na Na Naa
The weight of history was against them. Home teams win game sevens. Teams down 3 games to 1 don’t win series.
And, thus, Edmonton bowed to the weight, though they didn’t go down without a fight. It just looked that way for a while. When they were suddenly handed a get-out-of-jail-free card, nearly two minutes of [...]
At least I didn’t have to mow the lawn
A soggy weekend. I watered the lawn last Tuesday, because it and the plants were looking peakéd. Since Friday, we’ve had heavy rainstorms every day, with no end in sight. Parts of Houston received 10.5″ this morning alone. . This picture (from the Chronicle) is not far from one of our interstates near the downtown [...]
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
