“There are love stories in the underground. I’ll tell you one if you want. It’s a tired old boy meets girl, but it’s got some power to spark in the dark. You can sit and listen, can’t you? You look like you’d like a good love story.” The other night I sat in my living […]
Tag: Short stories
Short Story in Progress and Genre Research
I guess it can’t be called a completed piece because it just got workshopped in class, but it is almost completed, I believe. This was a departure from my usual fantasy and sci-fi writing, which I don’t do very often. I went ahead and tried to write a story that is one we’ve heard quite […]
The antithesis of good writing juju…
There is nothing in the world that can make it hard to write like being ill. Since last January I have been battling massive stomach/intestinal issues which have knocked me on my ass, coupled with the problem of ye olde migraines. And you know what I’ve found? Being sick drives the old muse away. It […]
Short story explosion- Javi’s story
In the spirit of my insomniac-induced writing mania, I submit for your approval the following recounting of this evenings insanity. I took a nap due to having a headache for three hours, woke up at 9:45 and realized I could get some work done for a while. I went to the little writer’s room for […]
The Writing Project Load
So a new part of this blog project is going to be writing up a little bit about what I’m writing right now. There isn’t much of a purpose in it, really, except to sort of check in every once in a while on projects that I’m going through and to keep my progress. It […]
The Mania of Short Stories
It long ago came to my attention that the writing and reading of short stories was an acquired taste as well as a dying breed. It wasn’t until I read the introduction to a collection of short stories that I realized that published authors felt the same way that I did about it. Michael Chabon, […]
Writing Update!
As of today, I have turned out one short story last night, entitled “Songs in the Dark”, which is a short story based on one of the larger projects I’m working on. Pages = 9 Time it took to write = two hours I’ve also been banging out the start of a new urban fantasy […]
