Going off-line for a while.....

I'm going off-line for a while.  Probably about two years.  I have new expenses with a new apartment.  And I can't afford internet right now for my laptop.  So, I'm putting all my blogs into hiatus for the foreseeable future.  It's been fun.  However, I'll still have personal and professional email accounts if you need to get a hold of me online. 

Thanks,
Regards,
Blake Wood Walker
St. Louis, MO
USA

Tried my hand at satire

I tried my hand at satire this week on a dark subject.  Mobile trailer meth labs and the children who are sexually abused by live-in boyfriends of their meth lab mothers who cook this crap up in front of children to leave the taxpayer stuck with the thousands in clean-up bills, 

To which I reply, "Trailer fire.  Trailer fire.  You're going to die...."

Blake

Copy editing of Kepler Falling Complete

My copy editing of Kepler Falling is now complete.  Time to move onto other projects....

Blake

Copy editing Kepler Falling

I'm going through and copy editing Kepler Falling for mistakes.  I've gone through my other novellas.  My last novella was Eternity's Edge.  That's a sequel to Kepler Falling.  I have numerous novellas to take to Writers Under The Arch this fall.  It'll keep me busy most of the the next two and half years.  Not much else is happening, right now.  I'm in a waiting mode until tomorrow or this coming week...

Blake

Week in review....

I spent the weekend going over things online.  I tried writing to no avail.  I'm going to give it another shot later this afternoon.  I've got a bunch of poetry to read, edit, and have critiqued.  I'm still working on a rough draft of Eternity's Edge.  That will take awhile.  I've run out of things to read.  I want to get more done this coming week.  The goal is 1,000 additional words. 

My younger sibling finished the first rough draft of his novel.  It's over 286,000 words!  It's way too long for a first time novel.  But he's done.  It's a cyber-noir crime story.  He's been working on it for a long time.  This was his second attempt at writing it.  It's long and involved.  My brother is a much better at descriptions and world building than me.  However, his characters have had little empathy in the past.  I don't know if that's changed with his latest writing.....

Blake 

I'm working on new summertime projects....

I been reading A Collection of Short Stories, Volume:  One by Louis L'Amour.  I've also read a couple of Napoleonic fantasy novels that were OK.  I could write better stuff than what I've read.

Writing-wise, I've tried my hand at poetry.  I've also written a western short story (it's actually flash fiction).  I also restarted my rough draft of Eternity's Edge (about 27,251 words).  I hope to have about 40,000 to 50,000 words by the time I'm done with the rough draft. 

That's it for now...
Blake

Finished draft of Nordic Sun...

I finished the ALPHA draft of the sci-fi novella, Nordic Sun, this past week.  I'm going into my BETA draft revisions now.  It will take a while to complete it.  It's about 26,000 words long.  I'll see how much I wind up cutting.  I cut off quite a bit, so far....

Blake