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The Home of Forgotten Websites
This site has become sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy; I’ve forgotten that I was contributing content to it once upon a time! Inertia is a pain in the ass. It’s very difficult to get the ball rolling when you’ve allowed it to grind to a halt. So let me just say that… I’m still writing.…
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Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Contest
New contest! It’s the Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Contest, and I’ve entered with a new short story that was based upon the little snippet I posted in my last blog entry. It’s called The Man-Animal and it’s less than 300 words, so if you have literally one minute to read, have at it! I’m finding…
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Writing Under the Influence
I was drinking the other night, and I was also browsing Reddit writing prompts, which is a good way to produce something interesting. Probably not good, but definitely interesting. I just found this in a text document on my laptop: The man reels in his own filth. But don’t call him a man; the time…
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Fear
I’m a big proponent of the “fuck fear, it does you no good” school of thought when it comes to writing, but now, when it’s time to put my money where my mouth is, I’m afraid I’m failing. I’ve written something that I’m afraid for people to read. More to the point, I published it.…
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Progress à la Carte
I’m making good progress on The Sigil. I’ve actually got about nine chapters pre-written for this one. Much of it needs to be tweaked and put in a different order to really work for the story, but more to the point, it needs to be written. And left the hell alone for a while. The…
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The Return of the Night Owl Challenge
I’ve written a new story for Vocal’s the Return of the Night Owl Challenge, and I hope you like it! I’ve also published it here so my friends can read it. It’s called The Whispered Scream. (Vocal link here: https://vocal.media/fiction/the-whispered-scream) It’s given me so many ideas for this particular world, that I’m thinking I could…
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The Tragedy of the Pothos
Emotionally and psychologically, I feel like I’m a lot… softer… than I was when I was young. Does this happen to everybody? It’s not necessarily a bad thing; I’m much more compassionate than I once was. But it certainly does make certain things more difficult. I’ll give an example: When my grandmother moved out of…
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Why Do I Keep Watching This Movie??
I think Sleepless in Seattle is a terrible movie. In all seriousness, it’s one of the worst romances on record. First of all, she comes this close to marrying a man she’s not in love with (presumably because she’s desperate to get married), but let’s explore why isn’t she in love with this perfectly wonderful…
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Which Do You Start With?
How do you begin to write a story? What questions do you ask? Often I tend to start with a MacGuffin, and then add more and more MacGuffins, until eventually I finally have to buckle down and write a character. For instance, in “Telling of the Story“, the originating idea was “What if there was…
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Writing Every Day
I don’t necessarily subscribe to the writing advice that you find absolutely everywhere that one must write every single day in order to call oneself a writer. Don’t get me wrong, I see the point of the practice. In order to be a writer, you must write, and a habit of doing so every single…
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