One week in, 4 stories away, 26 to go. Yeah, this is starting to feel like a marathon. Up very early and threw out yesterday's start on "Home in Time" and started fresh in first person with the correct name. And wouldn't you know it, things are mo...

Got up early and went back to "Woody and June vs. the Grand Canyon." Corrected my misstep and threw out and redrafted a lot of the end. I had moved the character's relationship a tad too fast, and missed great opportunities for drama and humor at the end. Which, is why it didn't...

Interesting day. Yesterday I left "Woody and June vs. the Grand Canyon" at over 5,000 words and not done yet, thinking I might have taken a wrong turn. So, I set it aside and started a new story, "The Disappearing Neighborhood." This is based on an idea I had at the beginning of...

Two stories out the door! Story #1, "Woody and June vs. the Fungus-Head Zombies," and story #2, the sci-fi android story now with a title,"Daisy’s Heart". I read "Daisy’s Heart" to Aleia this morning and there were tears--a good sign for this story--and she helped me find the tit...

Found the end of the second story (scfi with an android), cleaned it up, and it's ready to read to Aleia. Cleaned up story 1 (Woody and June vs the Fungus-Head Zombies) and read it to Aleia--she's liking these and zombies aren't her thing, so that's a good sign. The fixing of the...