Dan's Scifi & Fantasy Blog

Howdy, I continue to be happy with having my YA WIP looked at by a professional editor. There are two significant advantages to having this done. 1. In my e...

Howdy, Now that I'm a soon to be published novelist, I've discovered something. I need to be serious about my platform. Whatever that is, exactly...??? I know...

Howdy, A few months ago, I decided to take the plunge and hire an editor to take a look at my YA WIP. I did this for several reasons. This being before Solar...

Howdy, If you heard some hollering last week, that was me. I received the most awesome news that Solarflame, my debut fantasy novel, has been picked up for p...

Howdy, Does the plague outbreak seem like something writers have been training for their entire lives? Long hours of self-isolation…etc., etc. Maybe not. Sti...

Howdy, Recently, I finished off some excellent sci-fi and a book that falls somewhere between history and current events. Unintentionally, at least on a cons...

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 sparkle. The manuscr...

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 past few days, though...

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 fantasy. Tool of War by P...

Howdy, I finished reading On Writing by Stephen King a couple of weeks ago. As I mentioned before, there is a lot to digest in this relatively thin volume. W...

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. Seraphina and Shadow Sc...

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 Juice-box Hero: Squeezing...

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

Howdy, I’ve had one hell of a great writing weekend. The Willamette Writers Conference over the weekend was perhaps the best one I’ve been to. The seminars I...

Howdy, Well, I’m going to be a busy bee this weekend. Willamette Writers Conference. This won’t be my first rodeo, but I haven’t been to this conference for...

Howdy, It wasn’t that long ago I said I had officially started my new WIP. Well, there’s some good news bad news on that. I had started on it, and this week,...

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

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 Fiction on the Web. This ...

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

I've had a great start to June. Just learned I’ve had a story accepted over at Fiction on the Web. I’m pretty pumped about this story, called The Wall. It ta...