(Hi, folks! For the time being, some, most, or all of the fol­low­ing links will still revert back to the orig­i­nal Writ­ing About Writ­ing web­page over on Blog­ger. This is not a mis­take. It just takes a long time to move thou­sands of arti­cles. Thank you for your patience as we nav­i­gate this tran­si­tion.)

Question: Will You Post More of Your Fiction?

Short answer: Yes, but.….

Long answer:
I will. How­ev­er, blog­ging takes a LOT of time and I have anoth­er job (that can’t be done by any­one else until this pan­dem­ic is over) that takes about twen­ty hours a week before I even sit down to write. And I’m armpits deep in a book that is long over­due. So my fic­tion hits this site slow­ly when I have the extra time to do it. It isn’t fire-and-for­get the way some of my arti­cles are. I real­ly try to pol­ish fic­tion and think about it care­ful­ly and even run it past some peer review before pub­lish­ing it. 

So what that means is that I put in about ten fold as much time and effort on a page of fic­tion as I do on a page of a reg­u­lar arti­cle with the same word count.  If I pub­lished a lot more fic­tion, I would have a lot less time for the rest of the blog. So I will keep post­ing fic­tion, but it is prob­a­bly on an unof­fi­cial hia­tus until the pan­dem­ic is over.

I’m also cur­rent­ly work­ing on a nov­el that will drop here in ser­i­al for­mat (in addi­tion to being avail­able in e‑format and through print on demand).

In the mean­time, I hope you enjoy what I have post­ed over at the Reli­quary menu: “And Occa­sion­al­ly Some Writ­ing.”

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