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An Experiment in Writing – Part 31: Who Haven’t I Written About Lately?

This experiment follows up An Experiment in Writing – Part 30: What Happens Next? as it can be used as a second step (kicking it up a notch?) if “What Happens Next?” fails you. “Who Haven’t I Written About Lately?” is an expansion of something Cozy and Thriller author Donna Huston Murray gave me in … Continue reading "An Experiment in Writing – Part 31: Who Haven’t I Written About Lately?"

Fains I (A John Chance Mystery) Chapter 9 – Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night (rewrite 2)

Fains I (A John Chance Mystery) Chapter 9 – Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night   Rhonda Gilbert lost her Company tail in a fifteenth-floor custodian’s closet at Trump Tower. The custodian’s closet contained one of her many New York City caches, one of thousands across the globe. Wherever she posted, she used a … Continue reading "Fains I (A John Chance Mystery) Chapter 9 – Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night (rewrite 2)"

All Trees Full

Ever gone to a restaurant, preferably a favorite or at least familiar one, and had to wait for a table? A few minutes wait? Good time to chat with others in line. Stretch it out to fifteen minutes though. You’re stomach rumbling a bit. You realize the people you’re chatting with are low grade morons … Continue reading "All Trees Full"

An Experiment in Writing – Part 30: What Happens Next?

As notes in previous experiments, these missals are for my benefit and it’s great if you also benefit, and I’m doing them really to remind/teach myself how to write better. Case in point, this one. I got stuck – note, stuck, not blocked. To me, getting stuck and getting blocked are two entirely different things, … Continue reading "An Experiment in Writing – Part 30: What Happens Next?"

My “O’Happy Day” now on MysteryTribune

  I first crafted O’ Happy Day on 9 Oct 2019. I have no idea what prompted it. Probably seeing some age-based injustice and, being me, getting involved. Before you ask, I adhere to non-violence. Much prefer discussion, conversation, understanding. Sometimes that’s not an option. And so it goes.

Fains I (A John Chance Mystery) Chapter 4 – What We Do in the Shadows (rewrite 4)

Yes, rewrite #4. And no, I still don’t want to talk about it. Except to offer what’s happening is probably going to end up in An Experiment in Writing about getting the voice correct (which I’ve done before in experiments 15–18), so perhaps not so much about getting the voice correct as letting the characters … Continue reading "Fains I (A John Chance Mystery) Chapter 4 – What We Do in the Shadows (rewrite 4)"

A Work of Art

Sometimes the simple geometries of The Wild stagger me. Consider a simple (simple???) spider web. The elegance, the symmetry. Now consider how many years of evolution it took to get it just right. Now recognize that evolution is still happening. What we recognize as a spider’s web is what a spider’s web is at this … Continue reading "A Work of Art"

An Experiment in Writing – Part 29: Character via Exposition

Continuing with the theme of these experiments are for my benefit and it’s great if you also benefit, and I’m doing them really to remind/teach myself how to write better. Experiment 14: Exposition via Character Revelation via Deep POV is the mirror to this one.   Think I’m onto something? Take a class with me … Continue reading "An Experiment in Writing – Part 29: Character via Exposition"

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My “Power Unlimited” now on Tall Tale TV

  Power Unlimited is a science fiction humor piece about an accidental meeting with aliens from roughly 1985. The story’s based on my experiences lifting weights back in the day when gyms had weights; no machines (or few which were mostly homemade cable pull devices); no aerobic equipment of any kind; were in basements, garages, … Continue reading "My “Power Unlimited” now on Tall Tale TV"