Apologies for the recent silence. As you can see, there’s been a lot of stuff going on, and precious little has had anything to do with writing. I’ll be back with a real status update once the mountain of unpacked boxes has been successfully turned into a series of…
5 Things I Learned From Posting My Fiction Online
It’s been more than a month since I posted the final installment of my short story, The Stars That Sing. Now that the dust has settled, I thought it would be fun to do a quick retrospective. What went well? What went poorly? What is the sure-fire secret to overnight…
The Stars That Sing: Conclusion
Well, it took a few weeks, all told, but we’ve finally reached the conclusion to The Stars That Sing, and I’m excited to hear what you all think. If you want to re-read previous chapters (or arrived at this page without having done so), you can start over with…
The Stars That Sing: Ch. 9-10
It’s time for yet another #TwoChapterTuesday. With only a handful of chapters to go, the action is definitely heating up, and I am curious to hear what you all think! If you want to re-read previous chapters (or arrived at this page without having done so), you can…
The Stars That Sing: Ch. 7-8
Welcome to another #TwoChapterTuesday! If you want to re-read previous chapters (or arrived at this page without having done so), you can start over with Chapters 1 and 2 here, and then follow the links at the bottom of each post to progress through the story. And now,…
The Stars That Sing: Ch. 5-6
After much thought and a lack of outright rejection from the peanut gallery, I’ve opted to dub these weekly posts, #TwoChaptersTuesday. Hopefully, the hashtag is self-explanatory. (Why I’m using a hashtag on a website, on the other hand, might be less so.) Anyway, now that we’ve met…
The Stars That Sing: Ch. 3-4
As I mentioned last week, I’ll be posting chapters of my short story, The Stars That Sing, every Tuesday. If you missed the initial chapters, you can find them in the Recent Posts section in the right-hand menu, or by clicking here. Enjoy!
The Stars That Sing: Ch. 1-2
After having lamented, at length, about how weirdly short January was, I must now also admit that I have no idea what happened to February. With only a day or so left in the month, my bold plans for frequent updates seem to have fallen by the wayside. So I’ll…
The Month That Wasn’t
I’d start off by saying what a quiet month January was… if I wasn’t secretly convinced that January was far less than a month this year. I’m reasonably certain that it was roughly 1-2 weeks long, and if someone told me it had actually only lasted a handful of hours,…
The Art of Negative Space
“In a field / I am the absence / of field. This is / always the case. Wherever I am / I am what is missing.” – Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole” In art, there’s a concept called negative space. Negative space is the space that exists around…