I’ve gotten far less traction for the Answering the Call short story work than I was honestly expecting.  I’m still not operating with any true feedback or discussion on my work to date, but the readership for the pieces just…

Yesterday was an awesome chance to spend time building the background that Azazel is operating under.  Maybe it was a bit self indulgent of me to take so much of the story and do world building, but that’s too bad. …

So, yesterday I dropped a huge theological what-if bombshell.  I’m going to spend most of today elaborating the world Joseph Brindle has been thrust into.  It’s fun to have a character entertain Faustian bargains.  They open up so many potential…

The first leg of Answering the Call was so much fun to write!  My wife and I are compulsive readers, and her input helped shape the flow of the story as it went along.  I love the mixture of dramatics,…

My goodness that was a fun finale to write.  The use of an improvised potato gun as a finishing weapon was pretty spectacular, if I do say so myself.  And it continues to add the characters history and a general…

For the first time in my writing career, I have successfully crafted a cliffhanger!  It wasn’t exactly easy, and I had to bully my brain in directions I wouldn’t have thought it would go.  Oscar Wilde was quite right when…

I wanted to sit here and write a simple follow-up post to the short story I wrote yesterday.  When Worlds Collide was a lot of fun, and I feel it’s been my best work yet.  Yet…  I have a confession. …

My previous foray into short stories this week was, to my mind, exceptional.  The premise was a unique world-building exercise which bore only passing similarity to other works in the genre, my hero was a refreshing gender and religion bend,…

When I’m not thinking up new stories, I like to take time to write about things that happen either with my writing or situations which occur to influence my writing.  So far, I’ve written a fair collection of short stories,…

One of the biggest things I wish to achieve with the use of this blog, and my twice a week short stories, is a sense of continuity.  I want each story to be a unique glimpse into the universe I…