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I trekked down into the wine cellar to insert a few notes into "Buried Truths". I finally figured out how to make two important conversations the dramatic pivots, and the device involves writing Mischief the cat, who is now named Spooky, back into the story. I purposely avoided reading any more than I needed to make those insertions. That story ( Read more... )

"Wednesday Wives" is the collective name I christened my ex-girlfriends, Wednesday, that is, as in Addams. The reason behind this is all my flames could have been Wednesday as an adult. Today, I was struck with the thought that this would make the good title for a story. That, then, was today's writing project, forging this idea with some kind of ( Read more... )

"Buried Truths" is sitting in the wine cellar for a few weeks.

I have two story ideas, one a novella, and the other either a short story or a long novel. The working title for the novella is Cowboy, the main character. Yeah, it's trite but so is Cowboy himself. Or, is he? This is going to be very experimental fiction and I may not get it to work. ( Read more... )

Today I finished the first draft of "Buried Truths", a short story that has rolled around in my head for almost 7 years. At first, it was meant to be a novel titled Veronica Dearheart featuring a cat/familiar named Mischief, but then Clive Barker published Abarat with its main character named Mischief, so my cat lost his remaining five lives.

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