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February 10, 2015
Conduits | Ch4 & Ch5 – Clara’s on the road
Last week a big, long chapter of “Conduits” was posted in which Clara is facedwith the murder of a friend with more friends are are just around the corner to comfort our favorite conduit. Chapter Four can be read by clicking here. You can also read the chapter on Wattpad (click here). This week (today) […]
January 27, 2015
Conduits | Ch3 Disaster Strikes Linden Grove
Chapter Three of “Conduits” is up today. To read here on the siteclick here. You can also continue reading the story over at Wattpad by clicking here. Pass along the story. See you here next Tuesday.
January 20, 2015
Conduits | Ch2 Meet Clara
It’s Tuesday and next chapter of “Conduits” is up for everyone’s reading pleasure. Today, meet Clara Danvers in Chapter Two. Click here to read. You can also read Chapter Two over at Wattpad (click here). Cheers!
January 13, 2015
Conduits | Ch1 Nightmares & Folktales Are Real
Chapter One in the “Conduits” story is up today, wherein a brother and sister learn the folktales told by their elders are more than fireside stories. Click here to read. You can also read Chapter One over at Wattpad (click here). Enjoy!
January 6, 2015
Conduits | The Hunt for Junk Begins HERE…
A year or more ago I wrote a story I referred to asa “junkpunk” novel. It was a story about a girl who can bring rusted, broken down machines to life usingmagic fireflies. This girl, Clara Danvers, is a conduit. She lives in a world where generations past the world went dark. Electricity blinked out […]
January 1, 2015
Musings | Randomness
My wife is an avid reader. She reads more than I do… if you can believe that. Look, I’m a writer. I spend time writing, sometimes (most times) more time than I do reading. Anyway. My wife reads–I think–like two or three books a week. I’m guessing here. She guesses she read 100+ books in […]
October 6, 2014
Musings | Literary Pick-up Lines
Any writer will tell you how critical the first chapter of a book can be to draw ina reader. The first chapter is the hook. Actually… it’s the bait. Not many chapter are long. They punch the reader in the nose and let them knowwhat’s up. Like a punch, the first chapter has to have […]
August 5, 2014
The Craft | Genesis… No… not you, Phil
Inspiration streaks across an author’s mind like a shooting star. Sudden. There and gone. Sometimes you make the wish and then the falling piece of space debris is gone. Other times, if you’re lucky, you grab that piece of inspiration by the tail, yank yourself on it, and ride that bucking sucker to a fully […]
July 24, 2014
The Craft | Designing Characters
The internet is a black hole in the subspace of our lives. Clicking on a link reveals a crap-load of other links that demand your clicky-clicky-clicky-clicky attention. Four hours later and you’ve skipped two meals, forgotten to pick up the kids, realized a ten-page college paper is due in (shit) 30 minutes!, and for some […]
July 15, 2014
Musings | You are what you eat… er… read?
[Tries crawling out of a infinite, information murky black hole.] [The links have me by the ankle, pulling me deeper.] [Click us. Click. US. Say the links.] [One heavy booted kick to the Interest's face...] [The internet spits me back out, offended by my bitter taste.] So… while fending off the tempting allure oflinks and […]
