So:

I started my story for the most recent Writeoff last Friday, two weeks after the actual starting time, and finished it this morning, two weeks after the deadline. Which means I now have this story ready to go through the Writeoff process...and no Writeoff to submit it to.

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A few weeks ago:

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Two-and-a-half weeks ago:

I learned about the NonBinary Review, a quarterly anthology that's figured out a way to legally pay writers for fanfiction. Yes, it's just a penny a word, but still...

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I'd thought:

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This month so far:

Has been one ding-dang thing after another, and all of those things have conspired to keep me away from chapter 3 of "Great Wall." I'll have Mèng Huàn's half of the chapter finished by today, but I'll need till Saturday the 12th, I reckon, to get Twilight's half put together. So how 'bout we all reconvene then?

Mike

Shifting work schedules:

Are pretty much dictating that I'm not gonna get chapter 3 of "A Great Wall" finished by Sunday. So let's aim for Wed. March 9th and see how that shakes out.

Mike

Looks like:

The schedule on "A Great Wall" will be the same as when I was writing all those serials over on my AugieDog account: a chapter every ten days. I'm guessing the story'll have five chapters all told with each chapter being between 3,000 and 4,000 words. All numbers are, of course, approximate, however...

Mike

I'm finally getting around to:

Finishing up "Grouchisaurus Rex," a story inspired by some prompts that the Writeoff Association used before I'd ever heard of their monthly contests. The new first chapter is up now, and I'll be rewriting the rest of it into two more chapters over the next few weeks. I hope. Maybe...

Mike

Over in AugieDog Land:

I've been working on a romantic comedy, a genre I've never tried before. Present Perfect gave me some wonderful editorial advice, but the result is no one's fault but mine. And by that I mean that the story ended up being more a meditation on the concepts of romance and comedy than anything else...

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In the last Writeoff:

I wrote something that was more a promissory note than a story, a semi-parody of True Grit called "Shoe Grit" that was pretty much just a run through for some ideas that I want to explore at greater length when I get a chance later this year.

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