It happened again. I tried to stop myself at the end of chapter three of my new sci-fi novella (provisional title, Bandiagara) but I’m now on chapter five. These are short chapters, but require research so they have distracted me from Glitter Dog, And I plan on writing a couple of short stories to go along with the novella to have a short, sci-fi chronicle. Despite getting sidetracked from my supernatural noir novella, I still have managed to keep up with flash fiction writin

The pendulum has swung the other way. After a period of being greatly slowed by translations, revisions—and most significantly, worrying about commercial success—I’m back to having too many ideas jostling around in my head. So many that I’m back to writing too many stories simultaneously. In any given day I’m probably writing Glitter Dog (Supernatural Noir), another short sci-fi novella I just started, and flash fiction. Plus, revisions and translations. I suppose I shouldn’

I really think that novellas are my favourite form of fiction to write. There is no universally accepted range of words, but most I’ve what I’ve read seems to indicate that novellas are between 20,000 and 40,000 words. On the shorter end of scale it’s hard to get a full story if there are too many characters/conflicts, but towards the maximum word count I find that it’s actually quite easy to get a complete story written with multiple characters and multiple conflicts. I’ve