Got my picture taken in the bowels of the Bellingham Herald building for the Serial Story: Memories of Light. Also, we will be doing a reading of the serial at Village Books at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct.12. Finished the 2nd draft of the opening story for my Fiction and...
Completed 90% of this e-book using Scrivener. It was more difficult to figure out, but when uploaded to Kindle reader, Scrivener gives me so much more control. The e-book should be up in early August. It includes most of my sold fiction (PG rated) and poetry, as well...
"Memories of Light," a serial science fiction story written by Whatcom County residents, runs Mondays, July 22 through Aug. 26, in The Bellingham Herald. The chapters also will be available at this Serial Novel webpage. From Dean Kahn's article: "CHAPTER SIX: Wrapping...
The novel is now nearly 97,000 words (about 300 pages according to Createspace). Whew. Tonight I'm going to read Much Ado About Nothing with friends as a reunion for a performance from 2002, I think. Tomorrow I'm working on a swingset and a trampoline, which are both...
96,896 words. 39 chapters. Three Drafts. Thousands of words cut. First two endings cut. Ending changed. Now to get the last 13 chapters to the Story Editor. Weirdest thing is that I only added 5000 words in the last five days. It seems like twice as much. Of course,...
Hey folks, Passed the half a million characters mark! 😉 And 92,000 words. Closing in on the ending. Which changed in the last two days. There is a certain pull, a point at which the characters tell you what they are going to do (provided you've raised them right!)....
Robert L. Slater, author of the young adult, apocalyptic science fiction series Deserted Lands, has worked as a teacher in the beautiful Pacific Northwest for 20 years. Like some of his characters, he has a propensity for speaking in lines from 80s movies, drinking Mountain Dew and eating pizza.