For the 2015 Clarion Write-a-Thon I have pledged to write 50 stories by August 1. I’ve written 17 short story drafts so far. Here they are, in order: 1. The 7th Street Matriarchy – 1,700 words – a group of women trying to save their public housing project with distributed Read more
Okay so, I wasn’t going to do the write-a-thon this year. I feel like I spend too much time soliciting donations for various causes and I don’t want to bother people. Then I found out they did not have nearly as many authors this year as usual. So I kinda Read more
So, once again I made a thing, and I made it for a contest. Sorta. Okay so I started a second text adventure after writing “Space Princess” in a single day gave me unreasonable expectations re: ease of composition. I thought I would do something more complex, with javascript and Read more
I had attempted to write this novel before. First as a short story of about 10,000 words. When my writing workshop all said “this should be a novel,” I expanded it to about 28,000 words without adding any plot. My goal for National Novel Writing Month was to finish a Read more
Okay, so it didn’t win the IF competition, and it didn’t get accepted for publication at the only interactive fiction market I know of, so I am posting my wee text adventure “Take Over the World – Or at Least Cleveland” here on my website for all to enjoy. Please Read more
My goal for the 2017 Clarion Write-a-Thon is to write 50 stories in six weeks. I’ll keep track here and on twitter. My previous post has a list of rewards I’m offering if you donate to my cause! Progress: Day One: 1. “Saving Big Daddy” re-write horror story 2. “Ghost Read more
At the last second, my husband convinced me to join the Cleveland Game Developers local game jam this past weekend. I know! I’m doing a write-a-thon, I’m revising a novel… do I really need to sign away my weekend to writing a video game? Well, I kinda did. Friday night, Read more