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Placed Top 50 in Writers of the Future Contest!

8/5/2015

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Okay, I have got to get my jitters down on a page so that I can actually get something done with the rest of my day. Drumroll please...

I just placed in the top 50 for this quarter of the Writers of the Future speculative fiction contest! This thing is, like, THE BIGGEST international contest for speculative fiction, so I imagine there are a LOT of entries per quarter.


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The Story Behind IMMERSION (and an excerpt)

12/26/2014

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I think IMMERSION started with a dream, but for the life of me, I can't really remember much of the dream. This is because, as soon as I woke up, I started adding bits and pieces to the dream, and taking parts away, until I had made up the whole story and just about nothing of the dream was left. 

I recall the dream had something to do with a man who was being hunted by a shadowy group that wanted him to do something for them, but I don't remember what, and he ended up in a very dark place in a cage (I think), in which his family couldn't get to him. 

The characters came clearly in the dream: a young woman with a physical disability, and a little boy with an irrepressible spirit and a penchant for generating more questions than answers. 

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Excerpt from "Beyond the Void"

10/23/2014

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I've been struggling to continue with my story, Beyond the Void, recently. Partly, that's because my brother has been in the hospital with a ruptured appendix, so normal life is currently forsaken. Partly, that's because I was having a hard time wrapping my mind around this particular story.

After reading it aloud to my brother and one of my sisters, my sister commented, "It's one of those weird, fascinating fantasy stories that reminds me of George MacDonald's style."

My brain jolted. Oh! That was it. That was why I couldn't write the story the way I wanted to. I was categorizing it as epic fantasy (think Tolkien), but the story simply didn't fit. It wasn't fantasy; it was a  fairytale for grown-ups.


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Update on The Memory, and a sneak peek of Anssi the matzpun

10/2/2014

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Recently, I've been working very hard on my revision of my novel, entitled The Memory. 

I originally wrote The Memory in 2008, when I was 19. The first draft was just over 50,000 words, which, by today's standards, doesn't even make it a novel (most publishers consider novels to be at least 60,000 words). In February of this year, I decided it was time to polish The Memory for publication. It only needed some minor tweaking, nothing major, just a little touch-up here and there...

I really should have known better. Since when has my perfectionist nature not hijacked my plans?

And thus began the major overhaul of my story.
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Not final cover art
Revision Progress: 
78805 words out of estimated 82,000 words

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