Writing

Story of the Week #5: Sangrilicious

Here it is, folks, Story of the Week #5.
I hate vampire stories. I mean, really hate them. I know, it’s a weakness of mine, but I can’t seem to find any vampire stories that do anything original with the trope. I mean, there are a few vampire stories that are good, as long as the [...]

Story of the Week #4 - Floaters

Well, here it is. Story of the Week Number Four: “Floaters”. Like all the other stories I’ve written for this little project, this one is inspired by true events.
Anyone, have fun with this one. It’s a little bit gruesome toward the end, so if you have a weak stomach, you might want to avoid this [...]

Story of the Week #3 - Roosterville

This is my third Story of the Week, and this one was by far the hardest to write. I think it’s because I actually had a plot that I wanted to use, and a pretty complicated one (by SOTW standards, at least). It has issues, but I think it has, at least, a lot of [...]

Story of the Week #2 - Jenny Goes Home

Second Story of the Week, and two days early. This one goes into a little bit of backstory of one of the characters in The Solitude of the Tentacled Space Monster, the novel I’ve been writing for… well, forever at this point. I hope to finish it soon.
Anyway, those precious few who’ve read early drafts [...]

Could be interesting…

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Mahalo is a human-powered search engine dedicated to delivering carefully curated search results featuring the highest quality, spam-free links available, alongside helpful and informative Guide Notes and Fast Facts about these search terms. Our motto is ”We’re here to [...]

Story of the Week #1: On the Road to Orlgrunt

Here’s Story of the Week number one. I was pretty surprised at how easy it was to write it. This Story of the Week thing is going to be easy!
Anyway, this is “On the Road to Orlgrunt”. It’s got a couple of in-jokes from my days as a Dungeon Master but I think it’s nicely [...]

Time Sinks

Current Mood: Busy…Being evidence that my blog can indeed consist of more than just Twitter updates.
It’s November, which is always a month full of time sinks for me.  I mean, everyone’s busy during November what with the holidays and Thanksgiving (well, everyone in America who celebrates Thanksgiving at least).   But for about 100,000 people around [...]

A Contest, Won!

Current Mood: ExcitedTo be honest, I’d forgotten that I’d entered the WritersWeekly Fall 2007 Short Story Contest.  I’d entered as a lark, a way to spend a weekend in solidarity with my friend Ray Solberg and her friend John Goodrich.  It was fun, but I thought my story, "In the Living Room, a Painting", was [...]