At the end of December I posted an assessment of my annual writing goals. I didn’t do very well with my goals in 2018, but happily, I now get to post an addendum.

Goal #5 was to write a hard SF short story, 7,000 words or less. In my assessment, I noted that I’d spent two or three weeks trying to write this story, before giving up on it in early December. In early January, I went back to work on it. Honestly, I spent way too much time on it, but by mid-January I finally had a complete draft. 7,300 words — so it’s a little longer than planned, but close enough.

I wrote the story for an anthology, and it’s been accepted by the editor. So hooray! That’s successfully done.

I expect the anthology will be formally announced in the next month or two; I’ll let you know. It should see publication in 2019.

Now I’m back to work on the sequel to Edges, and so far it’s going well.

Posted on: Monday, January 21st, 2019 at 5:31 am
Categories: Short Stories.