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I added several pages on All Flowers Must Live today, perking up a little sagging plot twist today. I am profoundly surprised at how easy it is to write comixes when I definitely don’t have enough in me to write something even a bit more substantial. The short dialogues and sketchy description is what I’m [...]

It seems that all I need to start writing is: 1. a couple of good, productive days at work to boost my confidence, 2. a morning tram to work, 3. a constant notice in the blog that I am writing, yes, I am. So here I go. It’s nothing much, just two pages on that [...]

So apart from being busy at work, busy with (good) personal life changes and stuff, I have finally found my way back to actual writing. Not the scribbles I sometimes do or an occasional poem (gah!), but something that could be, umm, of some value. It’s nothing big yet, not even grown to a zygotic [...]

So. The Final Turn is once again bravely headed to markets unknown. I love that story and I am not ready to give up on it (even though for a long while, I thought I might). Also, I’ve been catching up on critiquing, wondering where could (or should) I send Demonhunter that needs only a [...]

I have been so swamped in my day job & my whattheheckisthatcalled that goes on in my head that I barely manage to surface to breathe. Not good for writing. The good news is that I’m reading a lot (the best thing to relax during lunch breaks or at evenings) and half of these books [...]

The past few days have been rather intense–I’ve been meeting people, writing things (mostly non-fiction, for freelance gigs and whatnot), some editing etc.. The contrast between this and the last weeks, no, actually months of doing much less that I could is surprising; I don’t even know whether in a good or a bad way. [...]

So, I have written what I think of as my first horror story. (I’m not counting a bloody and severely disgusting spin-off of a classic Latvian stage play I did when I was fourteen.) It’s about… Snow White. The idea was conceived three weeks ago, and took a horribly long time to mature. I had [...]

So, first five days of Story-A-Day May have been quite good. I’ve written a story in each of them, some better, some (umm) requiring heavy editing. On average, it is just the same as if I’d written them in my normal story-a-month pace. I am running out of words though, this funny exhausted feeling I’m [...]

So my short story, “The Roommates”, has been published in Fusion Fragment. Go ahead and read it, it’s online and for free. I’m quite happy about how it looks even though I’m coming through the usual post-publication blues. I think I’ll try to make a “behind the scenes” post at some time, but not now.

March is so close that I hope I won’t even have pre-May anxiety attack because, well, there’s not much of pre-May available. My plan is not to write 31 actual stories but rather to develop 31 stories-in-my-mind by outlining them in handwriting, in my notebook. I don’t know how detailed these outlines will be but [...]