Silver Pod Part 35: A Kind of Afterlife

This is the end. I began this project as a way to practice creating new writing while my nose was kept to the grindstone of revision on other projects. I ended up with a 38,000 words novella. I even enjoyed the journey. How about that? Thank you for joining me. In the near future I…

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Silver Pod Part 34: Water from the Well

I'm concerned that the climax is a let down. I'm concerned that readers aren't going to get it. I'm concerned about a lot of things, but when I started this project, I started it for practice and a challenge to myself to keep producing new things. It has succeeded. This is the second to last…

Silver Pod Part 33: Better Half

How does an author keep a story fresh for themself? The world outside the margins has all its demands. Self-imposed goals can become a prison. Sometimes the characters go silent. I keep asking myself, "What are you interested in? How can the story be interesting for you?" I believe that when I answer those questions,…

Silver Pod Part 32: Oldest Memories

Though I'm busy with teaching, the little I've been writing has been with enthusiasm. Even when I can see the flaws in my writing, when I tap into that enthusiastic energy, it comes through in my writing. My novel revision (in some parts re-writing from scratch) reflects this as well. If there's a magic spell…

Silver Pod Part 31: Liftoff is Non-Negotiable

Writing Silver Pod has been my succor this week. Revising my novel has been a painful slog. This freewrite was much more fun. It's imperfect, I don't like chapters in which there is almost no character interaction, but I hope that I have put my characters in the most dire of straits and you, dear…