Progress report:<\/p>\n
Last time looked at: 2\/8\/17<\/p>\n
Last actual wordage added: 2\/8\/17<\/p>\n
Pages added, 2\/8\/17: Not sure<\/p>\n
Current page count: 0<\/p>\n
Estimated final page count: 350-400?<\/p>\n
Word-count is now undefined.<\/p>\n
Deadline: None, but Wildside sent me a contract.<\/p>\n
Comments: I assume anyone who browses SF or fantasy on Amazon is aware of Wildside’s “Megapack” series of bargain ebooks.<\/p>\n
Well, they asked to do one collecting a bunch of my short fiction.<\/p>\n
I came up with a list of two dozen stories, and tonight I decided the time had come to assemble them.<\/p>\n
I hit a snag almost immediately. The second story I went to add, “The Temple of Life,” didn’t turn up in my initial search, and I eventually realized why.<\/p>\n
I wrote it in 1980. I got my first computer in 1984. I wrote “The Temple of Life” on a typewriter, and I have no idea whether I still have a manuscript or carbon.<\/p>\n
But I do have the published story, so I dug it out and after debating whether to rely on scanning\/OCR or not, decided I just need to type the whole thing in.<\/p>\n
So I’ve started doing that. Haven’t got very far yet, just a page or two.<\/p>\n
Given its age I expected it to suck; so far it doesn’t, which is a pleasant surprise. And it’s recognizably my style, even back then.<\/p>\n
This story is definitely obscure, though — its only<\/i> previous publication was in a gaming mag called The Space Gamer<\/b>, 36 years ago. It’s actually a sequel to a story I started writing in high school and never finished.<\/p>\n
I’ve also pulled out my multiply-published cat story, “Trixie,” for another go-round. The rest of the contents will have to wait until I finish typing in “The Temple of Life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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