Dan's Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog

Howdy, Exciting news! This morning I finished the rough draft of my current WIP, a YA fantasy. This is really amazing, I knocked out this...

Howdy, Recently, I polished off a couple of extra-long audiobooks. I listened to both of these on Libby, the audiobook app that lets you...

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...

Howdy, Happy Turkey Day Eve! Is there anything worse than trying to market your manuscript to agents and editors, etc.? Probably not....

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, As NaNoWriMo passes its midpoint, I continue to be pleased with my progress on my YA WIP. So far in November, I’ve knocked out 8...

Howdy, All the wild news from the impeachment hearings to the latest school shooting has reminded me of a sci-fi short story called War...

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

Howdy, Just in time for Halloween, Second Date, my first horror short story, is out in the Isolation Anthology from Fantasia Divinity...

Howdy, I’ve gobbled up some satisfying adult fantasy and YA sci-fi since the last reading update. So, without further ado, here we go....

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

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...

Howdy, I'm super pleased with my writing progress this September. I wrote approximately 20,000 words. 20,000! That's quite a bit for me....

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, Right now, it feels like I have tons of iron in the writing fire. My new YA WIP proceeds at breakneck speed, which is totally...

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...