A brief opening to a short story / possible novella that I’ve been keeping on the back burner for a while. As of this post, the story is nearly forty pages long, and I’m estimating that I’m about two thirds of the way done. What I have here is very very rough, and is definitely subject to change as the story shapes itself a little more. Keep an eye out for “Section II” somewhere down the line…
It happens to all writers at some point: we’re on a roll, the words are flowing from our mind like some kind of nice, flowy thing; we start to fall in love with our story all over again. And then we hit it: a lull. We know we want to get from beginning to end,…
Have you ever seen those videos on YouTube where an artist takes multiple clips from a specific movie and rearranges them to create trailers for it across different genres? While most fiction pieces tend to fit tightly within one particular genre, a good story always has several other elements lying just beneath the surface, and…
Yesterday I was watching Star Trek, and it hit me: writers really are the unsung heroes of life. Now, as a writer myself, I’m really not trying to blow my own horn here. There are thousands of writers throughout history that have written far more meaningful stories and even single sentences than I have. No—what…
A book with a message that was successfully integrated into the story–and not mercilessly hammered home, like most books with messages. A fun adventure that has me looking forward to the sequel!