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 our main characters, it’s time…
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 leave the general site update…
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, I’m not sure I’d be…
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 the subject. If your artwork…
Holiday (Pie) Update
With Thanksgiving behind us, it can only mean one thing: weeks and weeks of eating all varieties of pie. Lovely, wonderful, oh-so-tasty pie.
The Value of Fewer Words
“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.” -Samuel Beckett After a month in which I wrote almost nothing, I thought it would be appropriate to focus this blog post on the value of writing less. By that, I don’t mean writing breaks. I mean giving your words, your characters, and your…
Of Mice and Men
“The best laid plans of mice and men rarely survive first contact with the enemy.” I was actually going to start this post a couple days ago, but saw that it was almost the end of August and that I had an opportunity to instead post it at the absolute last possible moment, along with…
The Definition of Done
See These Bones Status: “Done” (136,344 words) After somewhere between seven and nine months of writing, I finished the first draft of See These Bones last night. I then imported the manuscript into Calibre, converted it to mobi format, dropped it on my Kindle, posted a quick Facebook status update to crow about being…
June Writing Update
See These Bones Status: 109k words / ~130k projected length “May you live in interesting times… and may your day job’s workload increase just in time to interfere with your writing and publishing efforts.” With only four days left in the month, this very nearly became the July writing update… but enough has happened…