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WiP Extract - Dark God's Rise - Chapter 1

What are we working on, now we've finished the fourth book in the Strays of Lunar One series?Well, there are several, but I always have a focus project, and the others get done as I can fit them in. The next focus project is rewrite of Dark God's Rise, the second book in the Chronicles of a Dark God trilogy.And here's the first chapter, in draft: --------------------------------------------------

The Writer Reads Poetry from Another 365 Days of Poetry – Day 09: “The D...

Yesterday's poem was modeled on the echo verse form...and is, of course, about dragons:

The Writer Reads Flash Fiction from Another 365 Days of Flash Fiction – ...

Today's flash fiction reading :-)

Saya Mencoba Belajar, dan Penerjamahan ke dalam, Bahasa Indonesia

Saya memutuskan seharusnya melanjutkan belajar bahasa Indonesia...dan barangkali lebih baik kalau membagikan proses itu di sini. Maaf minta di muka ketika kesalahan dibuat saya.Bersikaplah yang baik.Saya akan mulai dengan menerjemahkan tulisan saya, dan barangkali akan berbicara hal-hal yang lain juga.Terjemahan SatuNaik di DuniaSaya tinggal di apartemen sudut di sembilan puluh lima Jalan

WiP - Another 366 Days of Poetry: Celebrating a Thousand Words of Poetry

 In May, I decided to challenge myself to doing a thousand words of poetry a day. It's a lot harder than it sounds, is all I can say. I wrote this to celebrate the first day of success, not knowing how many more days there would be.

WiP - Another 366 Days of Poetry: Merceneric Contemplations

Still working on the next poetry collection. This one's an experimental  piece written from the perspective of someone in a futuristic and/or fantastical mercenary company.

The Writer Reads Flash Fiction - And a Flash Fiction Response from the WiP

Things have been progressing slowly over on my writer's channel on Youtube, however, this short reading came out today.   Nothing survives in a vacuum, however, and yesterday, when I was editing it, I had a follow-on piece come to mind. Slated to appear in Another 366 Days of Flash Fiction, the next collection of flash, this draft piece looks at what came after the events in the reading.

2023 - First Quarter Releases

This year has so far seen a release each month. In the first quarter, we saw additions to three different series.The first was A Collection of Shifters, the thirteenth volume in the C.M.'s Collections series, which has brought together all the short fiction and poetry written to a certain theme. This one brought together all the shifter stories...or most...that I have written to date, and

WiP: Another 366 Days of Poetry - A Hero's Strife Foretold

 An experiment in lookingat the hero’s journey using a series of Crapsey Type II cinquains.A Hero’s Strife ForetoldRivenFrom hearth and holdFrom family and friendsIn a long-lived journeythat wasForetoldDrivenFrom home and kinFrom the familiarAnd accused of this themost darkOf sinsStrivenTo next redeemA life thought lost,

Response to Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s February 15, 2023, Blog Post on How Writers Fail Part 11