Dan's Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog

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, Received some nice news today. I just had my sci-fi short story, The Trial, published over at Ansible. Pretty exciting. As is...

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

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...

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...

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...

Howdy, You’d have to be living totally off the grid not to have caught wind of all the hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of the...

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...

Great June so far for having short stories accepted and published. My sci-fi short story Sabotage went live the other day over at Altered...

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...

Just found out I’ve had another story accepted, this time my sci-fi short story Sabotage at Altered Reality Magazine. June is turning out...

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...

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,...

Well, since my last post on this topic, I’ve breezed through a handful of interesting books. I’ll start with the longest tome of them...

Howdy, Here’s an update on the various projects I’m working on at present. Hopefully, dictating this will help focus my mind on what I...

Howdy, I recently finished reading Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King. You might recall, that I referenced...

Howdy, Today is a pretty damn good writing day. I finally completed the Arduous Edit. In my last update, I stated I would look to...

Howdy, After reading my query letter to the writer’s guild, I quickly figured out it’s closer to horseshit than not. As you may recall...