I’ve done Story A Day May for five years, now. Last year, I intended every story to feed into a collection of various previously established characters of mine. The ones based in the SAGE world, I collected, along with some others, into SHIFTY. But, in…

Now that I have my short story collection in the can, I’m turning my attention to the first of my Spadena Street mysteries, BAR SINISTER. I wrote it as a short story, then expanded it one November into 60,000 words. Last year, I put each…

I got stuck on that story I’m working on in Scrivener. Over the years, I’ve learned that, if I’m stuck, then I’m doing something wrong. That being the case, I let myself stay stuck while I worried the problem like a dog with a bone.…