So, the next part of That First Gig will be posted as the next post.

Otherwise, a standard Friday, I'm up to about 6100 words on Peace Offering,
and it's still moving along. Since I've had mostly shorter stories over the
past couple months, I was wondering how the transition to a longer work would
feel. Whether I'd stumble over it, or if it would feel like I'm padding
something out just because I jumped into it "knowing" this one was a novel
length idea. But no, the rhythm is there.

Practice, I guess. Learning the ropes, how to write into the dark, as Dean
Smith would have it. It's not far from the way I started, so when I first
read him talk about it, I could glimpse the idea as a real thing, not just
something another writer was saying as some kind of abstract practice I
couldn't keep up with.

Now it's just... doing it. Having fun, and embracing that I when I sit down
here at the keyboard, even just for a few minutes at a time,
that's when the fun really begins.