2Sep 20227 Sep 2023

Update on My Novel #37

It’s been a while since I have posted, just over three months to be exact, and as one might imagine,…

Revising The Storm #48

Two weeks ago, I gave an update on my novel, after which I shifted to doing some work on my…

Update on My Novel #36

Two-and-a-half weeks ago I stated that I was scaling down this blog and giving my attention to my novel and…

Covalent: Part Twelve

21 Jul 202131 Dec 2021

"Please no!" Aylme moaned, but as she looked up to where the sling scraped over the bough she could see that the fibers of fabric were peeling apart more and…

Well, That Was Exhausting

19 Jul 202130 Dec 2021

Wearing Down) In the most recent chapter of Covalent I have one of my main characters, Aylme, brought to her absolute limit as she has rushes her unconscious comrades from…

Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 11

16 Jul 202130 Dec 2021

Increasing Danger) Oscar spun the wheel to the left, coming thirty degrees from perpendicular to the waves. The next crest rolled into them and there was the unsettling sensation of…

Covalent: Part Eleven

14 Jul 202131 Dec 2021

Aylme struck the flint against the rock again. This time the sparks fell where she wanted: into the shredded scraps of old cloth. The fibers quickly ignited and she leaned…

Broken Rules

12 Jul 202130 Dec 2021

Curiosity Satisfied) In the 1997 film Men in Black, undercover officer James Edwards is recruited into the highly secretive MIB organization, which was instituted to protect humanity from all manner…

Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 10

9 Jul 202130 Dec 2021

Tipping Over) "Oscar!" Harry's voice broke through the howling wind, his hand pointed fearfully ahead. Oscar turned around just in time to see his vessel sliding up the ramp of…

Covalent: Part Ten

7 Jul 202131 Dec 2021

Cace observed an inexplicable shift in the Ether. There was a change, a sense of pressure...but what it meant he could not tell. He took his attention off of Rolar…

Unknown Fears

5 Jul 202130 Dec 2021

Worse Things) In the last section of Covalent I introduced a new threat, a river that congealed part of itself into thin strands, and then stretched those strands out to…

Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 9

2 Jul 202130 Dec 2021

I haven't quite finished with Oscar's struggle against the waves, and after that I'm going to throw in a few more challenges before Harry gives his confession. I don't just…