I’ve had an interesting few days. I had to go live in a hotel for a couple of days while our bathroom floor was worked on. My wife is going to lay down the tile.

Her optimism knows no bounds.

I found that I can get more work done when I have no good access to my YouTube channels. Who would have thought that the Internet would be a huge time suck?

I am working on two horror stories, thanks to an online writing program called AutoCrit. You might have seen their advertisements on FaceBook. I know I have. I’m giving it a chance while I write the second draft of Serve Me Now. I didn’t like the first draft all that much. I just didn’t really feel confident that it was horrific enough – the standard being vosmic horror. In fact, I described it as ‘cosmic horror without the tentacles’. So, I am using this program – which has some decent editing features to it beyond the usual spell and grammar check. It allows you to compare your manuscript (which you can write on it, or import a file) to writers in the genre you’re writing in. Naturally, I am using this feature to compare it to Lovecraft. I am hoping (fingers and tentacles crossed) to get this done in two and a half months while I am still working on Tribal.

Tribal is coming along nicely and I have the lowered word count to thank for it. Only five hundred a day since I’m trying to get this one done by June to get it edited down and out there by Election Day. I can knock out five hundred words in about half an hour to forty-five minutes on a good clip, so I can work on it at lunch. Serve Me Now is going to be a thousand words a day, which I can also do at work (I don’t think anyone I work with reads this blog) when the boss leaves for the day. I have about an hour to myself, and if I can get my work finished quickly enough, I can use that hour to write on the computer. This is the only advantage to AutoCrit right now. Normally, I don’t like that, but for now it’s proving useful.

The Show Must Go On is getting edited down now, and I am still optimistic that it’s going to get released in a year – depends on how fast it gets read and edited. It might not see the light of day until next year. I only meet two times a month with my writing group, so that’s a hamper on things. I might go on ahead and run it through the editing programs I have now. I just want to get a book out this year.

Speaking of getting things out this year…did I mention that The Catastrophic Christmas Party is an audiobook? Yeah! Went up on April 1^st. Go check it out.

In fact – I am going to run a promotion. First fifty people to respond to this blog will get a promo code to get a copy of the audiobook for free. Choose to get either The Dreaded Day Job or The Catastrophic Christmas Party. The code will be emailed to you and all I ask in return is that you give me a good review.

That’s all the news for now, I am off to help tile the floor. Stay safe and I’ll see you in the next one.