Author: Michael Merriam

These are the programming items I will be on at MarsCon this weekend. Fiction Reading: Michael Merriam – Atrium 2 (Re(a)d Mars) – Friday 6:00pm I will be reading from my new short story collection, Whisper in Space, and either from Old Blood’s Fate or the soon to be released Dark Waters. Adventures in Time… Continue reading Marscon Schedule Revised!

Things have slowed down considerably, to the point of it becoming frustrating for me. It isn’t that I’m stuck, or having problems with the story, or am suffering from a lack of enthusiasm: it’s that all my time over the last week was sucked up and all my time appears to be sucked up for… Continue reading Ghosts of the Places We Live Update #5

These are the programming items I will be on at MarsCon this weekend. Fiction Reading: Michael Merriam – Atrium 2 (Re(a)d Mars) – Friday 06:00pm I will be reading from my new short story collection, Whisper in Space, and either from Old Blood’s Fate or the soon to be released Dark Waters. Mass Autographing –… Continue reading Marscon Schedule!

Progress has slowed this week, but there is still progress. 1. Finished up a couple of small scenes. 2. Spent a lot of time working on plugging holes in the story. 3. Engaged in thematic noodling. 4. Last week, I posted this picture of the Lost Oney School, circa 1932. 5. This week, I found… Continue reading Ghosts of the Places We Live Update #4

Today is my birthday. I’ve made it to 49 years old, which is a frankly better than some male members of my family, so every year is blessing. Happy birthday to me. It is also Wednesday, so time to post metrics and comments about the previous week. Went to Con of the North last weekend,… Continue reading Ghosts of the Places We Live Metrics Update #3 – Now With Bonus Con Report and Birthday

Another solid week of work on this project. My word count below is super-inflated because most of those words are from a previous work that I’m taking apart. I’m about done ripping out and rewriting the useful stuff, so word counts will slow to a more human speed in the next couple of weeks. But… Continue reading Ghosts of the Places We Live Metrics Update #2

I’ve started, which means now I have to finish. Right now any forward momentum is good, because I’m still intimidated by this project, so much so that I caught myself cat-waxing to avoid actually writing. That has to stop. I need to be held accountable. I don’t do daily word count goals anymore; they simple… Continue reading Ghosts of the Places We Live Metrics Update #1

I like creating titles. I do. But I usually don’t bother creating titles for chapters in my novels. I just number them, as in the case of Old Blood’s Fate or in Last Car to Annwn Station I use a day and date as a countdown. My three completed unpublished novels have followed this format.… Continue reading Chapter Titles

Music plays a big part in what I do. Before I was listen to the same handful of CD’s over and over during certain projects (Several of my stories have been written to Neko Case and The Old 97s) but I’ve started creating a more eclectic playlist for recent projects. These are the songs that… Continue reading The Final Song List For There Are Not Enough Midnights

I have been preparing to tackle the Ghosts of the Places You Live while also working on rewrites for There Are Not Enough Midnights, making notes, considering characters, doing some basic story arch brainstorming, rereading the bits of other dead project I’m planning to strip for parts and work into this story, researching, gathering photo… Continue reading Swinging For The Fences