It feels like I haven't written about my current writing process in quite some time, but a recent comment from the wonderful Joy Pixley has me thinking about it again. She is not the first to comment to me that I seem to have had a lot of success in publishing. I posted long ago … Continue reading My Story Submission Process
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Tips Straight from the Horse’s, er Judge’s Mouth
One of my current goals as a science fiction and fantasy writer is to eventually get into Writers of the Future. This has been a target for me ever since one of my literature teachers in college won and was published by them. If you can survive the brutal competition and professional-level judging, you can proudly … Continue reading Tips Straight from the Horse’s, er Judge’s Mouth
My Writing Process, or Dirty Dancing with the Muses
Some people are plotters, some people leave their characters adrift in hopes they will do something interesting. Stephen King is in the latter camp, adamantly a member of the let-the-characters-do-their-thing party. I imagine Tolkien must have been a plotter, and a big one. He started out building a language and then wrote a story for it. I'm … Continue reading My Writing Process, or Dirty Dancing with the Muses
Water and Blood – A (very) Short Story
It felt good to finally be clean. The smell of fish guts and the sea still covered her hands like an aura, but at least the blood was gone from between her fingers. Sparrow sat at a wooden table on the far end of the butchery. The windows were open wide, welcoming the salty night air … Continue reading Water and Blood – A (very) Short Story
Career Change – A Short Story
Ulfar watched the smoke billow up from the smoldering corpse of the pillaged hamlet. The air was thick with the smell of sweat, blood, and death. But the joy of it all was lost. When he was young, Ulfar had loved to watched the fire dance across the thatched roofs, to hear the final chorus … Continue reading Career Change – A Short Story
My Writing Space (Or How Not to Follow Stephen King’s Advice)
Fortune favors the bold, or so they say. I have been reading Stephen King's great treatise on the craft, On Writing. While I do intend to extract and discuss many key points of the book later, there is one bit that is likely not to make the cut for me: the discussion of proper writing spaces. This … Continue reading My Writing Space (Or How Not to Follow Stephen King’s Advice)
Learning, to Let Go – A (very) Short Story
Sparrow looked down at the massive shark lying on the table. It reeked something terrible and she worried how that stench would intensify once she cut it open. She was at the Liminal stages of becoming a true fisherman, but she didn’t know if she could see it through. Of course the older veterans had … Continue reading Learning, to Let Go – A (very) Short Story
The Stranger – A Short Story
I have been digging through the files on my old hard drive and discovered some little gems. This is a story I wrote back in college as part of a short story writing class. Peer-reviewed work from school cannot be any worse than the raw stuff I publish here daily, right? This is the story … Continue reading The Stranger – A Short Story
The Light of Tumin – A Short Myth
Long ago, long before the rise of empires of stone, long before man put his hands on the reigns of magic, Tumin watched over the people of the valley. She was a mother, a beacon of light and purity. She inspired honesty in men and steadfastness in women. She held the hands of maidens as … Continue reading The Light of Tumin – A Short Myth
Glacial Rage – A Nano Story
Beads of water rolled down the icy cliff into the sea—a million tiny splashes echoing in time. The silent rumble of centuries groaned as the glacier slid across the ground. Mists rose up where the it met the ocean, a pitched battle of warm and cold. Waves crashed futilely against the white continent. The wind swirled. The … Continue reading Glacial Rage – A Nano Story
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