Free Fiction! A new story, never before published! (in)substantial shadows
I am a shadow, living in the shadows, always among you, always watching.
Come hear how those of you living in the world, you brights, seduced the best of us to cross the barrier and try to live beside you.…
All week, I’ve been struggling with the short story I’ve been trying to write. “Project block” is what Kris Rusch calls it — and I think that’s right. I don’t ever get writer’s block — I can always write. I get project block, though, when there’s something wrong with a project and I can’t figure it out.…
I hurt my foot about 1 1/2 weeks ago. I’ve been going kind of stir crazy, not able to walk around or do as much as I’d normally like, because I’m trying to stay off my foot, keep it elevated and icing it.…
So the good news is that I didn’t break any of the bones in my foot. I have injured it though, bad enough that I need to stay off it, keep it iced and elevated. (Fine line between stubborn and stupid, and I keep waltzing over it.…
I started my challenge last week, to write a short story a week. So far, I’m two for two — I just finished writing a second short story today.
I plan on sending the first one off to a couple of markets, to see if it can find a home.…
NEW FICTION! Never before published!
Jacob practices polismancy: he divines the future from the entrails of his beloved city, Seattle. What happens when the city still willingly bleeds for him, but the voice of God grows silent?
Contains the bonus story, “The Doom of Alokai Temple.”…
Of the novel, that is.
I sat down and did plotting and realized that really, there aren’t that many chapters left. I figure the novel is only 63K words, not 69K words. I could be wrong, maybe I need those last two chapters, but right now, I think I don’t.…
–I’m about one-third of the way through “Railsea” and I’m still loving it so much.
–Last night I rewrote the last scene I’d done for the short story (“The Piano-Time Rag” is the name, BTW.) It was so much easier once I let the story be what it wanted to be.…
Today was a great writing day.
I got up, ate breakfast, then typed up the story I had finished hand writing yesterday. I finished that around 1 PM, ate a bit, did some grocery shopping, some general goofing off, some running around and some gardening.…
I didn’t write on Sunday. I had been thinking it was because I was being lazy, and just didn’t get around to it. It wasn’t until tonight that I figured out that no, it was because what I thought was the next scene, actually wasn’t.…