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August 12, 2015
1K a Day Motivational – “But I’m Settling Back In”
Thirty second in the Motivational series, and tied directly to the previous week’s “But I’m on Vacation”.
My vacation ended a couple days ago, and the last day of my vacation turned out to be lots of travel and an attempt to return to the normal routines of life. Only problem is, normal routines had fallen by the wayside. What’s a sleep schedule? What’s work? Why do I need to do that? Laundry? Chores?
Fuck all that.
Only you can’t. You can get away with a little bit of ignoring the demands of...
August 11, 2015
The Shape of Family – Part Three
Time for Part Three of The Shape of Family! There will be no more new POVs after this Part, just Sadie, Claire, and the uh… thing below.
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The Shape of Family Part Three – Wildby Rick Cook Jr
The thing that was not a bandersnatch followed at a safe distance. He knew her by the scent of blood. Scent was curious; he did not always possess it, and wished never to need it, so abhorrent was it to him.
He should take her now. If it wasn’t for that thing under the girl…
What is it? he wondered....
August 9, 2015
1K a Day Challenge – Week Thirty One
It’s August 9th, 2015. Week thirty oneof writing 1,000 words per day of fiction. It’s time for another update!
Days 214through 220 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written.
Stats for Days 214 to 220:
Day 214 – 1231 words
Day 215 – 1207 words
Day 216 – 1048 words
Day 217 – 1042 words
Day 218 – 1012 words
Day 219 – 1034 words
Day 220 – 1056 words
Total count for the year thus far is 280,121words. Average daily word count is1,273words. WIPAvalon Circleis at 79,187words....
August 5, 2015
1K a Day Motivational – “But I’m On Vacation”
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for another of those fun Motivationals where I try to work out one of a thousand things that is distracting me from the writing process.
This week I’m on vacation, away from home, out of state, visiting family and doing fun things! But I’m also still writing, still editing, still trying to do crits for people.
I’ve touched on this before a bit in my post “But It’s a Holiday”and I’d like to just expand on that now that I’m actually on a vacation where I’m...
August 4, 2015
The Shape of Family – Part Two
And away we go with Part Two of The Shape of Family! This Part is entitled “Wings”.
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The Shape of FamilyPart Two – Wings
by Rick Cook Jr
Wing Captain Claire Claymonte wanted to stay and search for the rider of this beautiful horse. It rankled that they were not able to sneak up and catch him unawares. But if the Forest didn’t kill him, a patrol probably would.
She sighed as they mounted up and Sergeant Combs continued to work his skill at calming on the animal. Dark blue and gray patch...
August 1, 2015
1K a Day Challenge – Week Thirty
It’s August 2nd, 2015. Week twenty nineof writing 1,000 words per day of fiction. It’s time for another update!
Days 207 through 213 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written.
Stats for Days 207 to 213:
Day 207 – 1144 words
Day 208 – 1104 words
Day 209 – 1167 words
Day 210 – 1047 words
Day 211 – 1045 words
Day 212 – 1081 words
Day 213 – 1014 words
Total count for the year thus far is 272,491words. Average daily word count is1,279words. WIPAvalon Circleis at 74,892word...
July 29, 2015
1K a Day Motivational – “It Inspires Me” July
It’s the last week of July and that means I get to write a review and pretend it’s part of my weekly series!
I was gonna talk about Sense8, the wonderful new show on Netflix, but I talked about a Netflix show last month, so we’re going into read’em material again instead.
So over the last couple months I’ve been reading this fantasy series, two books, by Karen Miller, the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker Saga. The books are called The Innocent Mage andThe Awakened Mage. I finished Awakened Mage towards...
July 28, 2015
The Shape of Family – Part One
Part One of a serialized story, not sure how long it’ll be, but it’s firmly in the fantasy camp, so fantasy fans rejoice? Expect one entry a week until completion!
The Shape of Family
Part One by Rick Cook Jr
From Sind’s Sundry at the edge of town, Sadie bought the star map and a singed pamphlet with the last of her silver and struck out for the skinyard, fingers twitching to be gone. Sind hisself hadn’t said a word. No one had. They all knew she was going, that she couldn’t be stopped.
She...
July 26, 2015
1KaDay Challenge – Week Twenty Nine
It’s July 26th, 2015. Week twenty nineof writing 1,000 words per day of fiction. It’s time for another update!
Days 200through 206 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written.
Stats for Days 200to 206:
Day 200 – 1306 words
Day 201 – 1106 words
Day 202 – 1370 words
Day 203 – 1139 words
Day 204 – 1618 words
Day 205 – 1118 words
Day 206 – 1298 words
Total count for the year thus far is 264,889words. Average daily word count is1,285words. WIPAvalon Circleis at 68,304words....
July 24, 2015
Why I Write – A Response
A departure from the regular schedule of two posts a week related to my 1K Challenge, I bring you a fast and dirty essay in response to a prompt from Chuck Wendig over on his blog.
Why do I write?
It’s not a question I think about often, but I do get asked it on occasion. I’ve written about reasons why I write in the past and I have no intention of dredging them up again.
I could give you all the canned answers, and they’d all be true. I write for many reasons.
The one I will focus on, that I...
