spinning yarns from heartstrings
The masons worked quickly, layering thick slabs of stone across the barbed fence while the guardsman patrolled the eastern quadrant. They monitored their progress for three days straight, one of them always watching until they knew every step of their routine. It would only take another four days, five at the most, before the […]
As promised last week, I have some pre-order details about my upcoming short story, “Surprise! You’re An Android”. It’s now available for pre-order on all platforms, and it’s just $0.99! That’s right, for less than the cost of a cheap coffee at your local coffee shop, you can sit down in the coffee shop and […]
I was incredibly determined this morning to make some headway on this project, so I sat down, read back through everything I’d already written, and decided to scrap all but maybe 400 words of it. Which was really sad because I’d actually written about 4000 words today, but it was also happy because they were […]
It’s been a few months since I released a new short story, and with all those beach vacations on the horizon for a lot of people I figured it was my civic duty to provide folks with something to read between shark sightings, late summer fireworks, and waiting for your favorite android to finish grilling […]
To say I have any idea what I’m doing with this Camp NaNoWriMo experience would be an absolute lie. I have a significant portion of my novel project planned, but every time I sit down to write, I end up working on a short story. And not the same short story, mind you, but new […]
Day three of Camp NaNoWriMo was a huge bust for me today. I know it’s an excuse, but I received some disturbing and disheartening news this morning from one of the people I love most in the world. I sat with it all day, while sending out good vibes on repeat and trying to distract […]
Today was a pretty solid day for writing. I am a little bit behind on daily word count goals on my Camp NaNoWriMo project, but I more than made up for it with the short story I started working on for an anthology I want to submit to later this month. I’m in the early […]
When I got an email a few weeks ago from the people over at NaNoWriMo about their summer writing program, Camp NaNoWriMo, I decided it would be a good time to get back to work on something I miss all the time: writing. It’s been several months since I wrote something for pleasure, and while […]
“Of course, we all wear masks,” the master of strings said without ceremony or pretense. “Every single one of us dons two faces at once, sometimes three or four or even more. A different face for each of our moods, for every occasion, if you will. But what most people fail to realize as they […]
Underneath her skin she is so much more then the good girl she pretends to be. Not patient, not sweet, not gentle like Mother taught her. Underneath her skin there is fire, simmering her blood, bubbling the chemicals in her brain, crackling her fat, making rage plume like smoke from her ears and her nostrils. […]