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Raise the Black Sun: Part Ten

9 Jul 202014 Dec 2021

It was the longest night of my life, and when at last I did fall asleep, my dreams were unlike anything I had ever experienced before. There was no narrative…

I See What You Did There

6 Jul 202013 Dec 2021

Finish the Pattern) West Side Story was never going to end happily. We listen to Tony and Maria plotting to get away from all the rottenness in their world, and…

Raise the Black Sun: Part Nine

2 Jul 202014 Dec 2021

I shivered and Mira looked downwards. "What am I?" I asked softly. Mira shrugged. "What can you be? You have no ultimate fate, no place of belonging...what is there to…

Improving Technique

Update on My Novel: Month 14

1 Jul 202013 Dec 2021

JUNE STATS Full Days Writing: 5 Partial Days Writing: 3 New Words: 1376 New Chapters: 0.3 Total Word-count: 47,133 Total Chapters: 13.3 For a while now I have reported declining…

Will You Remember Me?

29 Jun 202013 Dec 2021

Taking Names) I have always found it interesting which character names I am able to remember, and which ones I am not. For example, I struggle to remember the name…

Raise the Black Sun: Part Eight

25 Jun 202014 Dec 2021

The next day, when we awoke, we briefly discussed how if the theories of these people were correct, then this was to be the last normal day of our lives.…

The 11th Hour Arrival

22 Jun 202013 Dec 2021

Becoming Important) It was an interesting thing getting to know my wife. Of course I didn't know that she was going to be my wife when I first met her.…

Raise the Black Sun: Part Seven

18 Jun 202014 Dec 2021

Here, too, I found the reality far removed from that which I had imagined. Whenever I had heard of "sacrifices," I had pictured a captive bound and struggling upon a…

Meet My Friend, the Story

15 Jun 202013 Dec 2021

What is Shakespeare?) The best stories permeate with character. As I suggested at the end of my last post, I do not mean "characters," in the terms of protagonist, antagonist,…