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The last time I wrote poetry was when I was made to as part of a creative writing course I took in college back in 1989. This is a good thing because I’ve never been very good at writing poetry. I think this is for a couple of reasons. First, I see myself as a [...]
After swearing I’d never do another time travel story, I went ahead and did one anyway for the May 2010 writing exercise. You can check out all the exercises in this thread. My submission is my third story featuring the superhero group Chicago 8, not to be confused with the Chicago 7 or Chicago’s 8th [...]
…then I’m a guy who jogs and likes to write. Which would be pretty accurate. I buy two magazines regularly: Runner’s World and Writer’s Digest. Maybe I just like magazines with apostrophes in the titles. I’ll admit having an incredibly hot guy on the cover of Runner’s World helped persuade me to take a look [...]
On Saturday, November 21st (last night as I write this) I finished my novel for National Novel Writing Month. The Ferry is now a 50,810 word novel and the first I’ve actually finished. On reflection I am a little amazed I actually wrote a novel from beginning to end in just three weeks. The second [...]
National Novel Writing Month is officially underway today. I am working on The Ferry, starting it over from scratch (it stalled out more than a decade ago with about 11,000 words written), retaining only the basic plot. The characters are new but carry a few similarities to the original ones. My progress is being tracked [...]
I just like saying NaNoWriMo. That would be National Novel Writing Month. I’m signed up and ready to pound out my 50,000+ word masterpiece* over the next 30 days, starting Sunday (no day of rest here). I intend to keep writing here on a daily basis as well. Perhaps my novel will be about a [...]
Shopping at the mall And then the zombies show up Consumerism
Writing exercises, that is. The first is based on this premise: A pair of friends have just finished a lovely meal at a favorite restaurant, but things take a turn when one notices that the waiter has scribbled an unexpected—and startling—message on their bill. The story I wrote for this comes in two flavors: The [...]
How to Read This Blog, Part 1 by Creole Ned This site is divided into six categories: Dating Gaming General Health and Fitness Photos Writing Every post has at least one category attached to it. The content of each category is as follows: 1. Dating There are no entries for this because I am writing [...]
I like short stories. Among my many books you’ll find a pile of short story collections and anthologies. I’ve just added two more today — Flights Volume 2 and 20th Century Ghosts, a collection from Joe Hill, son of Stephen King. Because I suck at recalling details of short stories later on (I’m good with [...]
Nothing makes for a light read like an impending apocalypse. For Exercise #16 I wrote a story based on the image below. The tale is a companion piece to Superhero Go Home and is called Armageddon, Part 2. Enjoy!
Two more writing exercises to add to ye olde pile: Three Parts (scenes). I may spin one or two of these scenes into a full-fledged story some day. You get zombies, the search for love and space drama. Variety! Follow the Tracks. This one is unprecedented for me. I took an unfinished story that was [...]