Dec 30, 2013 | 365 short stories, Writing life | 1 Comment
This is my last post is my 365 Short Stories series. I fell short of my goal of 365 stories, but not of my vow to post a weekly progress report. (At a word count of 24,100, that’s a novella!) I intended to read another seven stories this week, but the family came in for Christmas and I made a choice to to spend time with them instead of my anthologies.
Dec 23, 2013 | 365 short stories, Uncategorized, Writing life | 0 Comments
I love metaphors, figurative language or suggestive phrasing folded into a story like raspberry filling in vanilla layer cake.
Dec 16, 2013 | 365 short stories, Uncategorized, Writing life | 0 Comments
Bargains, not the deals we shop for but the ones we make—with life and with each other, are this week’s fare. Each week, I let my first story suggest a theme. Good writers bury treasures in their stories.
Dec 9, 2013 | 365 short stories, Uncategorized, Writing life | 0 Comments
A slip that becomes a habit and then a lifestyle that leads to disaster is a theme this week’s stories about people behaving badly. I used Cornerstone Fellowship pastor Steve Madsen’s definition of sin as missing a mark or overstepping a boundary as my standard.
Dec 2, 2013 | 365 short stories, Writing life | 4 Comments
Tumultuous times, The Sixties is the time period of the new book I’m writing, so I’m winding the clock back to the era of counterculture.
Nov 25, 2013 | 365 short stories, Writing life | 1 Comment
Writing first person fiction lets you muck around in someone’s head to see what’s there or mess with their attitude. Where do you find writers audacious enough to try this? Try literary, experimental, and romance fiction.