It’s been a very quiet year on the writing front, with the decline in freelance jobs really hitting across the board. Combine that with my day job and I don’t feel I’ve done a lot.

That said, I’ve had some pleasing progress on the fiction front. I have a novel outline mostly complete and some initial writing undertaken as well. It’s slower going on my graphic novel script but it’s still slowly progressing.

Here’s hoping 2014 is a more productive one from a writing viewpoint, and I hope it’s a great one for you.

The past three months’ writing efforts have been focused on keeping TOROZ running smoothly. PhD studies have also rightfully claimed a big chunk of time.

My next commissioned writing gig is a piece for Bleeding Cool Comics on Oz Comic Con. I’ll also be spending a short period of time with Stan Lee  (fan-purchased time, not media time) to have a photo taken and have a comic autographed –  doesn’t get much better than that.

The past month or so has been tied up in two exciting projects. The first involves a chapter for an upcoming book on virtual worlds and health (details here) – the first draft is due mid-June so that precludes much freelance work between now and then.

The second project is a really fun one. TOROZ is a site devoted to covering the upcoming MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR). It’s in its very early stages but there is already a great deal of interest building. SWTOR is slated for an April 2011 release, but there’ll be no shortage of news and opinion generated in the meantime.