Stephen L. Thompson's Blog, page 10

2,000 Days of Writing!

Justafter midnight, I opened one of my many writing projects and typed a few wordsadding to a sentence.  While not much, itmeans – if my counting has been correct over the past few years – that I’vewritten something for 2,000 days in a row. That’s over five-and-a-half years of writing.  Which isn’t bad.Ofcourse, few of those days were ones where I wrote a thousand words.  The vast

Moon landing sale!

I ama big supporter of returning to the moon; I think it’s our best way of becominga spacefaring civilization.  As such, Iwill often spend an hour or so going over the list of future moon missions onWikipedia.  As I write this, CAPSTONE ison its way, but there could be a dozen more missions within the next year.  I wish them all success. Butthe reason for this sale is to mark the Apollo

Writing Newsletter Second Quarter 2022

 Inthe last three months, I’ve published three short stories: “Forced Conversation,”“Sadly True,” and “Not All News is Terrible.” I also reposted the story “Change for the Better?”I’vebeen bogged down with a lot of garden work these last few months, so I haven’thad the time – or energy – to do much writing. And for numerous other reasons, my enthusiasm for writing has also beenlow.  But,

Fourth of July Sale!

Ithink for every Fourth of July since I published Political Pies – my collection of short stories of a politicalnature – I’ve had a free sale for it.  Onone hand, it’s hard to make money if you give your books away for free, but onthe other hand the point of PoliticalPies was to get people to start thinking about politics in the hope wecould start working on some of the problems we face to

Free story idea – “Evil” gem

Ihave a lot of ideas for stories.  Like,if I wrote a novel’s worth of them every month, I’d still most likely diebefore getting through them all.  I willadmit that some of the ideas probably suck, but I think there are some that agood writer could make something of them. I’ll just never get a chance to. So, I give them to the world.  Ifyou can make something of these, go right ahead.  And

Don’t take it personally

Yearsago, I dated a woman who was a painter, but she wanted to try her hand atwriting.  I tried to help her out, even pointingout a small magazine that had published a couple of my stories which I thoughtwould be a good place for her to submit her first story.  I can’t remember what this magazine paid,maybe $5, and they published six issues a year, and before she even submittedsomething she

Random Writing Tips – Mystery for mystery sake

 Therewas a show I watched where I was debating giving up on it, but then it wascancelled, so problem solved.  It did endon a bit of a cliff hanger, so on one hand that sucked, but on the other handthe show wasn’t that great.  My main issuewith the show was it was poorly written. Probably the biggest issue I had was how they had several opportunitiesto explain things, but instead would

The never ending To Do list

I’ma bit of a procrastinator, especially when it comes to writing.  Like, I’ve been thinking about writing thisblog for a couple weeks, at least.  It’sgotten kind of bad over the last few years, so I’ve been trying to get aroundit.  One thing I’ve tried is a To Dolist, which has and hasn’t worked.TheVersion I To Do list is something I’ve done for years, which is where I basicallymake a

Ebook sale!

 Witheverything going on in the world, I figured I should try to make things alittle brighter.  But I couldn’t reallythink of anything, so instead I’ll just have a sale for some of my ebooks.  The following three ebooks will be free fromMonday May 2nd, through Friday May 6th, so get them while you can.The Future is ComingAs ascience fiction writer, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about

Free story idea – Timeline designer

Ihave a lot of ideas for stories.  Like,if I wrote a novel’s worth of them every month, I’d still most likely diebefore getting through them all.  I willadmit that some of the ideas probably suck, but I think there are some that agood writer could make something of them. I’ll just never get a chance to. So, I give them to the world.  Ifyou can make something of these, go right ahead.  And