Have a chapter on me
Rather than a writing journal today, I thought I’d share a chapter from a novel I’ve been working on. Well, re-working on. I’ve changed it up based on feedback from one of my critique groups, and some comments on twitter and...
Excerpt: Untitled Space Opera
This one has been bouncing around in my head for quiet some time. I work a little on it now and then when the mood strikes me. It’s a complicated piece. This week, after complaining that I hadn’t been very productive, I found myself...
Short Story Excerpt: Solar City
Keeping up with the ‘short story a week’ goal I have set for myself, I decided to revisit a piece of Flash Fiction I wrote a while ago called ‘Welcome to Solar City‘. To this day, it’s one of my favorite pieces and...
Sample-My New Short Story
One day I was sitting here and I thought, we need more cowboys in space. This lead me to sit down at the computer and start writing. The result was originally called ‘The Brothers of Katie Rose’; an homage to the classic western...
Excerpt Day 6: The Road to Faloan 2
I have shared with you a couple of chapter excerpts from ‘The Queen of Shadows’, the book I wrote in 3 days. To be honest with you, I didn’t even pause before I started working on the next book, ‘The Road to...
Excerpt Day 5: The Road to Faloan
I managed some good stuff on the sequel to my ‘written in 3 days’ book ‘The Queen of Shadows’, and wanted to share some of it with you here today. Yesterday, I introduced you to a couple of characters who were being put...
Excerpt Day 4: The Queen of Shadows 2
Yesterday, I introduced you to the book I wrote in 3 days, ‘The Queen of Shadows’. Well, at least to one of the better bits of it. In order to setup tomorrow’s excerpt from the sequel, ‘The Road to Faloan’, I wanted...
Excerpt Day 3: The Queen of Shadows
On a long, 3 day weekend several years ago, I wrote a book. Called ‘The Queen of Shadows’, it was intended to be the first in a series of adventures of a Wizard named ‘Darius’. As you might expect with a book written in...
Excerpt Day 2: Fan Fiction-Star Wars
I think we all enjoy writing a little fan fiction. For me, there was a lot of different, well known universes that I played in as I was learning to write. Sometimes, it’s easier to write in well established worlds because you know them so...
Monday Writing Excerpt: Untitled
Whenever an idea comes to mind, I have to write it down. Today’s excerpt is from an idea that I had for a scifi story. I wrote up the synopsis and a dozen or so chapters but felt there were other projects that needed to be completed...