A Whisper From The Front: The Book That Kept Getting Bigger
What my novel about a casualty notification officer and the widow who takes him apart is about, how it changed between drafts, and what's still unresolved.
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Everything tagged Works in Progress, wherever it's filed, newest first.
Alas, Dreamland: A Love Triangle, a Lion and the Night Coney Island Burned
What my Dreamland novel is about, the draft I threw out, how the current one changed, and the parts I still have to fix.
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Night Swimming: Flashlights, Y2K and Something Old in the Springs
What my Y2K horror novel about a teenage dealer and his crew is about, where it came from, how it changed between drafts, and what still needs fixing.
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Measuring the Flourish: What a 50-Case Benchmark Held Up and What It Didn't
How I tried to turn "things reach a flourish, then get optimized to death" into a scored benchmark, and what the reliability checks did to my early numbers.
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The Starship Ginsberg: A Teen Movie on a Ship That Won't Be Optimized
What my space novel about a scheduled cadet and a ship full of squatters is about, how it changed shape three times, and what the first draft still gets wrong.
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The Art of Wander: Things Reach a Flourish, Then We Optimize Them to Death
The idea behind the book I'm working on, where it came from, what it's shaping up to be, and the parts that still don't hold together.
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