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  1. Next Story (March, 2019)

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I am about a third to a half finished with my next story, which will be_The Angel of Haven_. Here are a couple of excerpts: "I don't like the fact that M ...

    - 2019/03/29 - 12:44am - 3 comments

  2. Angel of Haven

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I just passed 30k words on the next Angel story. I'm aiming for 50k. Note, though, that my writing schedule is irregular just now. I went to ConGlomeration la ...

    - 2019/04/29 - 7:38pm - 2 comments

  3. Non-Masks Anthology

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I'm thinking about stories to include in a non-Masks anthology. So far, my own ideas include rewritten versions of several stories which have been posted here ...

    - 2019/05/28 - 10:55am - 1 comment

  4. Angel of Haven

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Well, that's it for Angel of Haven. I already have some notes on Angel of Earth, but my next story will be Masks 22. Tomorrow, though, I fly out to the NASFiC ...

    - 2019/07/09 - 8:13pm - 1 comment

  5. Masks 22 Notes

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I'm reviewing some of the previous stories before I get into the meat of Masks 22. I am distressed to note the number of typos in Masks 21. I do remember that ...

    - 2019/07/26 - 3:51pm

  6. Inanimate Warriors

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing There's a scene I'd like to write, but with full awareness that it uses some Copyrighted material. So, I'll just describe it here. ...

    - 2019/12/17 - 3:51am - 7 comments

  7. Wedding Belles?

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I am about a fifth of the way through the actual writing of the next Masks story. (10k words out of an estimated 50k.) The first part is a flashback to shortly aft ...

    - 2020/02/15 - 7:58am - 11 comments

  8. Masks Timeline

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Here is the URL for the current Masks Timeline: http://www.dcr.net/~stickmak/Stories/MasksTimeline.html ...

    - 2020/03/01 - 7:29pm - 3 comments

  9. What's in a Name?

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I have a terrible memory, especially for names. There's a sort of hereditary aphasia in my Mother's family which I seem to have a double dose of. Using & ...

    - 2020/05/27 - 9:08pm - 2 comments

  10. Oldies but Goodies

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I have for decades been writing a column titled The Joy of High Tech, which has appeared in print and digital fanzines. I have recently begun rewriting some of the ...

    - 2020/08/01 - 8:54am

  11. A Conflict of Expectations

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I had hoped to post the first installment of the next Masks serial today. However, "things happened" over the holidays (nothing majorly bad and a few thi ...

    - 2021/01/09 - 9:30pm

  12. Kravaal Island Background

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Kravaal Island and the background tales of what happened there were inspired in part by the Boris Karloff movie The Man With Nine Lives and the music video for the ...

    - 2021/01/22 - 10:42am

  13. Bad Idea

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing In Masks XVIII there's the following: "Scaring someone to trigger their latent powers is the stupidest..." said Tiger, as Middleton sat, further sta ...

    - 2020/08/20 - 2:03pm - 2 comments

  14. Not Them:-)

    Stickmaker's blog Author:  Stickmaker Caution:  CAUTION: Not Work-Safe Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Not the Night Master and the Dragon's Hand (a bit risqué): https://tinyurl.com/yyshyyaa (Part of large set of photos I took a ...

    - 2021/01/31 - 7:46am - 7 comments

  15. Current Events

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Editors warn book writers not to include current events in works of fiction in progress, because by the time the work is finished the events will likely no longer ...

    - 2020/07/03 - 8:03am - 1 comment

  16. Philosophical Question

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing "Did you ever pause to wonder," said Mannequin, leaning in, with the air of someone about to reveal a great secret, " why the cheese stands alone?&q ...

    - 2021/03/19 - 1:05pm - 14 comments

  17. Rock and Roll Heaven?

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Coming up in the next Angel of... story: "You need to come by sometime and listen to us play," said CornFed. "'Play'?" said Melody. & ...

    - 2021/04/22 - 9:39am - 4 comments

  18. Repeat Customer

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Coming up in the next Angel of... story: Aaron was standing at a window, the lower portion of which was open. As was the screen beyond. Melody needed a moment to s ...

    - 2021/05/16 - 9:27am - 3 comments

  19. Slowly, Slowly...

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing_Angel of Earth_ is about a quarter of the way written. I have the beginning and the end and a little of the material in between. Oog... I have written some on the ...

    - 2021/06/04 - 5:41am

  20. The Joy of flight

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Imagine Malak doing this, just for the fun of it: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/215316179311525889/85... My thanks to MishaFox who posted the image to 3 W ...

    - 2021/06/21 - 4:39pm - 6 comments

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