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May 4, 2022
2022 Challenge Extracts: Day 4 (Poetry & Flash Fiction Challenges)
The challenge continues, with these pieces created at the end of a long day, but this post not created until this morning due to thunderstorms. Both are about hunters and the hunted, with the flash being a mix of science-fiction, horror and supernatural elements, and the poem being pure dark fantasy.Flash Fiction Challenge 2022Streak 1: 4 Days Flash Piece 1 - 157 words. First 10% (rounded down)
An Extract from This Month's Release: Beware the Shifting Dark (Another 365 Days of Poetry)
To celebrate this month's release of Another 365 Days of Poetry which released on the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a.
May 3, 2022
An Extract from This Month's Release: Fleeing the Eaters (Another 365 Days of Poetry)
To celebrate this month's release of Another 365 Days of Poetry which releasedon the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a.
2022 Challenge Extracts: Day 3
The challenge continues, with these pieces created at the end of a long day. The first is a science-fantasy piece of flash set in the same world as an existing piece of flash, and the second is a fantasy poem with some unlikely heroes.Flash Fiction Challenge 2022Streak 1: 3 Days Flash Piece 1 - 571 words. First 10% (rounded down) Day 3:-----------------------------
New Release: Another 365 Days of Poetry
Today sees the release of Another 365 Days of Poetry, a brand new title in the C.M.'s Collections series,. Sporting a brand-new cover from Jake at JCaleb Design, Another 365 Days of Poetry is my latest collection of poetry.What's it About? 365 days more of poetry, withverse ranging from the future to the past, the spooky to the melancholic,classic forms to experimental. Whether it’s a lost
May 2, 2022
Upgrading Alchemy & Rearranging the Plot –Swords ‘n’ Magic and Stuff (Ea...
For an early development game, there sure is a lot to do! Today, it's less spiders, and more about setting up house.
Two Challenges...So Far...for 2022
When I was growing up, 2022 was a distant year where science fiction books were set. Now? Well, now, it's now. I've been struggling a little with my writing so I thought I'd set myself a couple of challenges for the rest of this year to help me hit my goals: a Poetry Challenge, and a Flash Fiction Challenge.They're both very simple. All I need to do is write a single poem and a single piece of
An Extract from This Month's Release: Self-Sown Apocalypse
To celebrate this month's release of Another 365 Days of Poetry which releasedon the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a.
Cover Reveal: Yet Another 365 Days of Poetry (Current WiP)
Since I want to start posting updates on this project, I thought you might like to see the cover created for it by Jake at JCaleb Design. This is another installment in the C.M.'s Collections series and part of my 2022 Poetry Challenge, which I'll talk more about later.For now, here is the cover, and the poem from which I drew the brief that inspired Jake's art and design. Evacuation
May 1, 2022
An Extract from this Month's New Release: The Dragon Shines (Another 365 Days of Poetry)
To celebrate this month's release of Another 365 Days of Poetry which releasedon the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a.
