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Flash Fiction: Bart Luther, Freelance Exorcist (Act Four)
Three weeks ago, the Challenge was to write 1,000 or so words that were to be Act One of a four part story. Two weeks ago the Challenge was to write Act Two to extend someone else’s Act One, while...
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Flash Fiction: Incoherent
Back to something more “normal” this week, our weekly Flash Fiction Challenge is to write 1,000 or so words using one of ten random sentences. (Bonus points for using more than one.) I rolled a ten, so...
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My Funeral
First of all, I’m fine. I’m not dying, at least, not any more than the rest of us. I didn’t get any recent news of a tumor, blocked artery, or astronomically high blood pressure, nor do I know of a...
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Flash Fiction: Trash Night
This week’s Flash Fiction Challenge is to write 100 words. There isn’t a comma and an extra digit missing – one hundred words or less. Any subject, any genre. Alright, ignore the fact that Friday is...
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Flash Fiction: Stream
Last week there was some considerable controversy in the publishing world that I lurk in when a new app called “CleanRead” came out. It’s now been pulled, in no small part because what it was doing was...
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730 Days
Happy Second Birthday to “We Love The Stars Too Fondly”! 730 days 800 posts (a 99% increase) 13,406 views (a 199% increase, twice the linear rate of increase) Average views per day: 30 (was 10 for the...
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Flash Fiction: Carjacked
It’s been a while, since April 2nd to be precise. Things got a bit nuts through March, April, and May with the “Fifi” plus North Carolina plus Washington DC plus NASA thing. Something had to give, and...
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Flash Fiction: Deluge
This week’s Flash Fiction Challenge is based on a photo. A random photo. A random photo from the Flickr “Interestingness” page. I picked this one showing a desolate ruin in a valley full of dead trees,...
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Flash Fiction: Fallen So Far From Home
This week’s Flash Fiction Challenge starts with a body. A dead body. In the first paragraph. That’s the only requirement, the usual 1,000 words or so, blah, blah, blah. The idea was there, the...
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Flash Fiction: Do You Believe In Love?
This week’s Flash Fiction Challenge starts with a song title. We were to pick a random song title (from our iTunes or Apple Music or iHeart or Pandora or Spotify or by taking the entrails of an albino...
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Odds & Sods For Monday, August 31st
Item The First: This is odd: Normally this site percolates along with a handful of hits per hour. It’s not bad, but it’s not going to get any buyouts from Google or Medium any time soon. Three weeks...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Ten
A third of the way through the month, but about 40% of the way to the 50,000 word goal. Not that 50,000 words will actually finish the novel, but that’s the definition of “winning” NaNoWriMo. I find...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Eleven
Prioritizing your limited time in order to get your writing done is a bitch, even in the best of times. When the 400-pound gorilla demands a big chunk of time for several days, it can leave you not...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Twelve
Okay, Chapter Seven, Demon Spawn of Chapter Six, is finally done. During now and the first draft rewrite of all of this, there’s going to be a lot of otherwise wasted commute time thinking through what...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Thirteen
I’m wiped. There’s some potentially great personal news on the immediate horizon, but it’s being drowned by the horrible news coming out of Paris. Almost worse is the truly despicable and abominable...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Fourteen
One of the takeaways from NaNoWriMo is that no matter how dedicated you want to be, it’s almost impossible to find a way to get writing time every single day for thirty days. I guess there are folks...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Fifteen
The calendar’s halfway there. Is the story? No, not really. On the other hand, if you don’t know where you’re going, how do you know when you’re halfway there? In NaNoWriMo parlance I’m a “pantser,” as...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Sixteen
It’s been a good weekend and an extremely productive day. Time to stick the landing! It was going so well until my music betrayed me. Jean-Michel Jarre’s electronic music is wonderful to write to,...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Seventeen
I’ve managed to write something every single day, and with a couple of really good days to offset the couple of so-so days, I’m hovering right around the pace to hit the 50,000 word mark by December...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Eighteen
A bad day for words. Some days they flow, some days it’s like passing a kidney stone. (Been there, done that, never ever wanna do it again.) Today has been more like a “molasses in January” day. One...
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