Burning Up the Keyboard
I've had the best intentions to post something in this writing blog every week, but things keep interfering with my punctuality. This past week, I had a perfectly good reason: First, our phone line got broken by the road crew outside our house. Again. And this time, due to some crossed wires of a different variety, it took a few more days than before to get the wire fixed (thankfully, Verizon replaced the line, much higher and therefore out of the way). Just as well that I got knocked offline, as I had a deadline on Sunday, July 29th that I scorched my keyboard to meet (and did so with 14 hours to spare). I had that haunted apartment story to finish drafting and type up in the space of two weeks. Goodness knows I've written more in less amount of time, but the results pleased me and I hope that it pleases the editor. I wrote this tale more or less for my mother, and several small details relating to her turned up in the details of the tale. Also, fir a change of pace, I set it in the spring, rather than the autumn, as so many of my stories end up, though it has an odd, autumnal feel to it.
After I finished this story, I decided to give myself a break of a day or two, reading books and do some work around the house, including some cleaning and helping my dad run his hydraulic log splitter to break up some firewood for the winter. Does that make me a lumberjane for a day??
The rest has me recharged to address the stories I have in my work docket, which include, but aren't limited to:
-Two horror-comedy stories, one involving zombie chickens (inspired by a conversation with my mother. I have no idea....), and the other a half-finished work involving ghosts providing air conditioning in a bed and breakfast.
-Polishing a flash fiction involving peculiar things on a cruise (which I plan to post on my Patreon page)
-An especially ambitious story for an anthology set in the universe of Jon Black's Bel Nemeton, dealing with "Lost Books"; I'm taking the Lovecraftian tack (of course!) and writing a tale involving a book that I referenced in my "The Handmaid of the Key", published this year in Weirdbook #38. A plot has finally presented itself to me, and I've started jotting down a few paragraphs and things.
After I finished this story, I decided to give myself a break of a day or two, reading books and do some work around the house, including some cleaning and helping my dad run his hydraulic log splitter to break up some firewood for the winter. Does that make me a lumberjane for a day??
The rest has me recharged to address the stories I have in my work docket, which include, but aren't limited to:
-Two horror-comedy stories, one involving zombie chickens (inspired by a conversation with my mother. I have no idea....), and the other a half-finished work involving ghosts providing air conditioning in a bed and breakfast.
-Polishing a flash fiction involving peculiar things on a cruise (which I plan to post on my Patreon page)
-An especially ambitious story for an anthology set in the universe of Jon Black's Bel Nemeton, dealing with "Lost Books"; I'm taking the Lovecraftian tack (of course!) and writing a tale involving a book that I referenced in my "The Handmaid of the Key", published this year in Weirdbook #38. A plot has finally presented itself to me, and I've started jotting down a few paragraphs and things.
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