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there are stories that need telling, and I aim to do just that.

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Know Thyself

Posted on 18 July, 201510 June, 2019 by Blackwood

I suppose I should have known myself better—I have been perhaps a little too optimistic about starting and finishing a manuscript in a year. “But wait,” you say, “it’s only July! Surely there is enough time left? Surely you cannot be that slow of a writer?” Alas, I am basically Continue Reading

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What’s behind the name?

Posted on 2 June, 201510 June, 2019 by Blackwood

Why the Longhand Writer? When I started writing years ago, my friends and I would pass notebooks back and forth to each other in class, making up stories together. None of them were outstandingly good—though we might have thought so at the time—but it paved the way for a life-long Continue Reading

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the Unseen

Posted on 6 May, 201510 June, 2019 by Blackwood

This is a site for an author, someone who writes–and writes a lot. Probably not as much as they could, but certainly more than the average. But sometimes–a lot of times–writing isn’t always the physical, actual act of writing a story’s narrative. There are plenty of times when “writing” means Continue Reading

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the Big Goal 2015

Posted on 22 April, 201510 June, 2019 by Blackwood

Recently, I’ve worked on focusing my goals and deciding a rudimentary order in which I want to work on things/see them finished and published. I’ve gotten it down to two different novels that I believe would make good “first novels”, and of those two, I finally settled on which I’d Continue Reading

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It’s Official

Posted on 19 April, 201510 June, 2019 by Blackwood

Well, here it is. Not that anyone was expecting it, but it’s here regardless of any of that–an author site, for an upcoming author. Too long have I dallied on various blogging sites, where I have attempted to do something like this, but I’m turning–not a new leaf, but another Continue Reading

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Novel

Wolf's Eye
42% Complete
75,009 of 180,000 words
Status: First Draft

Novella

The Beast Beneath the Castle
38% Complete
6,464 of 17,000 words
Status: First Draft

Vignette Novella

Starmap to You (QuickSilver universe)
24% Complete
4,147 of 17,000 words
Status: in Progress

Short Story

Moon of Chance
24% Complete
1,701 of 7,000 words
Status: First Draft

Short Story

The Faerie's Ring
100% Complete
12,435 of 12,435 words
Status: Editing

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