Short Stories Raise the Black Sun: Part Six 11 Jun 202014 Dec 2021 My companions and I could tell that we had finally come to the heart of the matter and we leaned in close as our host continued to unveil the secrets…
Lessons A Mind of its Own 8 Jun 202013 Dec 2021 Do you write a story to express yourself, or does a story express itself through your writing? Many the creative soul has spoken of being moved to make things in…
Short Stories Raise the Black Sun: Part Five 4 Jun 202014 Dec 2021 As strange as it had been to discover the end of the world, I do believe the greater surprise was that we had met our first citizen of Graymore Coventry,…
Improving Technique Update on My Novel: Month 13 1 Jun 202013 Dec 2021 MAY STATS Days Writing: 10 New Words: 2751 New Chapters: 1 Total Word-count: 45,743 Total Chapters: 13 Well, May wasn't a great month for working on the blog, but I…
Lessons The Narrowing Wide 1 Jun 202013 Dec 2021 Life Stuff) Life seems to occur in chapters. We many times come to a major juncture where we realize that life for the past several years has fit within a…
Short Stories Raise the Black Sun: Part Four 28 May 202014 Dec 2021 I do not know why I did not abandon my post then. I cannot say that I held some glimmer of hope that was absent in the others. I suppose…
Lessons Unfinished Business 25 May 202013 Dec 2021 A Confusing Drama) My very first blog on this site talked about how authors should consider leaving some elements unsaid. That by merely hinting at things, and then letting the…
Short Stories Raise the Black Sun: Part Three 21 May 202014 Dec 2021 It occurred on a day when I was deep in thought about those three Treksmen who had been in line behind Yanni. Bil-Lyew, Zafrast, and Obasi. Why had they had…
Lessons Shades of Me, Shades of You 18 May 202013 Dec 2021 Revealed Through Story) I once told a friend about my outlet of writing stories. He smiled and knowingly said "the thing about writing is that you couldn't hide yourself, the…
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