Dan's Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog

Howdy, I hope this post finds you in good spirits, despite the global pandemic. The other day, my sanity took a blow. The governor of my...

Howdy, Does the plague outbreak seem like something writers have been training for their entire lives? Long hours of self-isolation…etc.,...

Howdy, OK. I finally decide to take the plunge and have an editor look at one of my manuscripts (the YA fantasy to be specific). A good...

Howdy, My YA WIP is now complete. It's been through several rounds of editing, so hopefully, it's just down to the spit shine to make it...

Howdy, Lately, I've been enthralled by my current WIP. It is still going well. I continue to be super pleased with my progress. For the...

Howdy, I write this during my final hours of single fatherhood. In the wee hours of tomorrow morning, my wife will return from a...

Howdy, How did your NaNoWriMo go? Mine went swimmingly, thank you very much. As I've mentioned before, I didn't try to do anything crazy...

Lately, I've been devouring YA. I’ve read some exceptional YA over the past month or so. This is great since my current WIP is a YA...

Howdy, Another November rolls around, another month of NaNoWriMo. Several people from my writing group are participating this year. I’m...

Howdy, After reading On Writing by Stephen King and discovering the master storyteller doesn’t plan (most of the time, anyway), I started...

Howdy, It’s been a while since I’ve written a post about what I’ve been reading. Lately, I’ve been plowing through YA fantasy novels....

Howdy, Well, it feels like it’s been a few weeks since I’ve written a post. I guess it has been, my last blog entry was on August 25th....

Howdy, Planning for my new novel-length WIP is going great with a capital G. I mean really fantastic. Fast, smooth, no hiccups. That...

Howdy, This is the first of a little bit more in-depth writeup of my time at the Willamette Writers Conference. I’ll start off with...

Howdy, This is the first of what will likely be several posts about the Willamette Writers Conference. This year’s conference (2019) is...

Howdy, Lately, I’ve made some excellent progress on improving my novel’s synopsis. No secret. Just revise, revise, and revise some more....

Howdy, I had an excellent start to July in my writerly world. My latest sci-fi short story The Wall was published last week over at...

Howdy, Damn. That is just damn good advice from Matt Bird, screenwriter and author of The Secrets of Story. Setting aside your draft, I...

Lately, I’ve been listening to audiobooks on Libby, an app that lets you check out audiobooks and e-books from your local library. It’s...

I just finished my initial plotting for my new WIP, a YA sci-fi. It’s still early days in the writing process, but I feel like I’ve...