So, as my daily procrastination, I’m just doing a quick checkin on my status for this year’s National Novel Writing Month. I’m currently at a little under 17,000 words, which of course is shy of the roughly 31,000 words I should be at. I have a good reason for that — honestly, it’s not just [...]
Mark straightened himself, looking at the blank masonry wall. He was standing in a building sub-entrance, where garbage cans were stored to his right. Brow furrowed, he tried to figure out what was going on.
He double checked his bag. Everything was in there as it should be–one book, one [...]
The interior of the store was cluttered with rows of shelving, containing books, curios, and wood carvings. Past these were a handful of bins, with bolts of cloth; the colors of which varied from deep purples to slightly off-white. Like the previous store, this one was also empty of customers; probably due [...]
The dreams had come back every night for the last week, leaving Mark harried and tired from the lack of sleep. The man spoke every time, repeating the same words; although it seemed as if the man was growing impatient and frustrated at Mark’s continued inability to understand him. There was a scowl on the [...]
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The paperback version of The Path Into Darkness is now available on Amazon.com, which is very exciting for me. It just started listing today, and it doesn’t have the typical discount that Amazon puts on books — I’m hoping that’s just due to it being a new listing. I wasn’t very happy with the list [...]
I just created an account at National Novel Writing Month. I first heard about it last year at Thanksgiving. Since that was smack dab at the end of the month, I couldn’t very well enter into it, could I?
So, I’m prepping for it now, by doing some preliminary brainstorming for ideas. I [...]
Spiders skittered around the periphery of his vision. Everything was shrouded in deep shadow; all he could see and hear were the spiders. There were hundreds of them, maybe thousands–crawling over him, on his face, through his hair. He felt the prickling of their steps as they weaved their way over his [...]
Children can be surprisingly adept at making up stories. They do it all the time, when they lie or need to make an excuse for why they didn’t clean their rooms. Schools don’t actively encourage it enough, but creative writing can put all that story telling ability to good use.
Read: Of course, [...]
I’ve heard good things about Associated Content, where you get paid for publishing content and articles. So, I submitted two pieces of flash fiction (short stories of up to 2000 words). They’re now available for viewing.
Timmy’s father shipped out on active military duty the previous Christmas. Before he left, he gave Timmy a [...]
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