One of the things I've learned during the last 14-15 years is that my when writing works, when my muse has the bit between her teeth, elements of a story seem to fall into place with relative ease ( Read more... )

Muse is up and running because of the work I've done the past few weeks on Sacrifices, but she latched onto an idea today after some comments I made to a friend's post. Jotted down the bare bones for a short story. Just the first few ideas--stuff about words and ideas, genesis and entropy--but there's not even a title hanging out a shingle yet. I' ( Read more... )

Second day in a row. I'm the last one in the house to get hit by this particular bug, but I'm catching up to Melissa where it concerns coughing and a runny nose.

The only good point is I've got the start to the second chapter. It's an important one, as it establishes the SF and supernatural foundation that will let Sacrifices make sense. Not real ( Read more... )

It's impossible (and possibly wrong) to write in a vacuum. Life happens around you, and you react in response to those events. What you know, what you remember, and how you interpret your place in the scheme of things evolves. Unless you're crazy, in which case nothing short of a miracle will alter your perspective ( Read more... )

Sent "Grave Robber" out again, this time to Quantum Muse. It's a viral thing. Saw another post here this morning about a story appearing in Muse and my muse told me to do it. Plus, I'm still working on Fallen and rather than wait until that's done and I can tackle the rewrite on "Sacrifices" (and the other shorts the muse has on the back burners) I ( Read more... )