Happy Monday.
I wanted to share something different with you today. It’s not Flash Fiction due to it’s length, but nor it is really a short story. It’s something in-between.
It’s a bit of future-history from The New Universe (my own little sandbox of creative endeavors – everything I write exists in this little Universe I’ve created). [...]
As you probably know by now, I’ve written a novel. I’m working on the second draft right now.
The gist: young woman living her life like any other normal person, suddenly finds herself neck deep in a mess that involves magic and a whole list of other things she’s always been told aren’t real.
I decided I [...]
Everyone is influenced by the people in their lives, by the things they enjoy; movies, books, tv shows – you name it. I’m no different.
If you’ve read this blog for a bit, you probably have a sense of what my humor is like and what my writing voice tends to be. I’ve been influenced by [...]
So. Chapter 16 of the WILDLY POPULAR WEB SERIAL Evermist hits the Internet today. Are you excited?!
If you haven’t been reading it, I want you to know – you make me sad. I mean, here I am, slaving over this hot laptop, day and night, sweat sometimes forming on my brow (not really, but my [...]
I’m thinking about my writing today and writing in general. Thought I’d share.
I like to think that every writer, no matter their genre, struggles from time to time with how much detail to put into their works, and how much to leave out.
For myself, I have written long, expansive, detailed chapters full of descriptive passages [...]
The plan for the weekend is to lock myself away for as long as possible and try to really push on writing projects.
I know I haven’t talked about such things in a while, and there’s reasons for that. What sucks is that reasons start sounding like excuses if you say them often enough.
Reason #1 I [...]
I thought I would take a moment to summarize all the advice out there on the web and in books and magazines for us unpublished authors. Hopefully you will find this as insightful and illuminating as I have.
Here it is:
Write.
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Evermist is a new, serial science fiction piece being released as part of my, ‘Tales From The New Universe’ series. New episodes will be released every week over at the Evermist site! Don’t miss out on a single episode! Add it to your reader, bookmark it, hit ‘favorites’ – whatever you prefer, just don’t miss [...]
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Tales from The New Universe: The Legend of Aoudjila
Zohhāk fled from the great city early in the summer, making his way across the blistering desert where he intended to die. His lover had rejected him, taking another as husband after many nights where she whispered through the wall to [...]
If you missed it last week, you may want to go check out Chapter 1 of my new scifi serial ‘Evermist’ over at: http://www.atfmb.com/Evermist. Chapter 2 drops today at 12:30 pm, mst!
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