Words Deferred is a blog about writing fiction, in all of its myriad forms.
It’s 2025, and I’m reviewing books and giving away my story ideas!
2024 was my Year of Short Stories. I spent 52 weeks writing sci-fi and fantasy stories and submitting them to publications. I wrote weekly updates to discuss my progress, as well as the ins and outs of writing and submitting short fiction in these markets. Read the kickoff, or see all the posts.
Previously, I spent almost two years writing Razor Mountain, a novel that I updated here twice per month. I documented the entire process, from ideas and outlining to the cover design and back-cover blurb to the chapters themselves. You can read all of it on my Razor Mountain landing page.
If you’d rather read some of my free microfiction or hundred-word drabbles, check out the Fiction section.
If you’re looking for something else, use the search, categories and tags in the sidebar, or check out my most recent posts below.
If You Care About Video Game Stories, You Should be Watching /noclip
If writing is my creative first love, video games are my second. Words Deferred is a site about writing, so I mostly limit my talk about video games to the story-centric, like my series about Games for People Who Prefer to Read. Of course, not all games care much about…
Novelist as a Vocation — Reference Desk #23
Book | E-Book | Audiobook (affiliate links) Haruki Murakami is a bestselling Japanese author whose novels have been translated into dozens of languages. He’s one of those literary writers who lives in the borderlands of literary magical realism and sci-fi/fantasy. My first introduction to his work was the monstrous tome…
The Voice I Kept, by Juno Guadalupe — Short Report
Short Reports are a miniature version of my Read Reports: brief thoughts about small—often tiny—stories. The Voice I Keptby Juno Guadalupe(Anomaly SF) At 138 words, this is not quite drabble-length, so it needs to hit hard and fast. It’s a story about the loss of someone loved, with the sci-fi…
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