Writing Progress

As many of you know, November is the National Novel Writing Month, or “NaNoWriMo” and the goal is for writers to pound out an entire 50,000 words before December 1st.

As of yesterday, my NaNoWriMo word count stood at: 0

Today, however, my word count jumped all the way up to 6. That is SIX more times the words I had yesterday! Woo-hoo, progress!

With any luck I’ll have pushed the word count up to 11 by this evening.

Even though I haven’t been doing much fiction writing lately, I still have stories in circulation, and I got word yesterday that one of them sold. My Sci-Fi parody It Came From Willy McCracken’s Buttocks will be appearing in next year’s Yard Dog Press anthology Houston, We Have Bubbas.

I am very happy to be a new member of the Yard Dog family!

Yesterday evening I received two copies of Apex SF and Horror Digest‘s new issue, and inside I found my story Wall Of Delusion. Along with all this came a nice little check.

Groovy.

If you all rush out and buy a copy, which would make both me and the magazine publishers happy, just keep in mind as you read my story that it doesn’t feature my original ending. I had written the story as one of redemption. This publisher, needing a darker ending for their magazine, changed it with my permission. Now it’s more a brooding revenge story.

Still, I hope it entertains. That’s all that really matters.