My annual summary and planning post, without the usual self-flagellation.
writing
Everything New Is Old Again: Dictating Your Writing
As I’ve started using Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, and doing more dictating (like this blog post), I’ve been struck by the similarities between dictating and old-school film photography. You see, “back in my day,” you had to take twelve or eighteen or twenty-four pictures before you could take them to a store to get them developed. Read More
Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: What Happened to the Pets?
When someone leaves their home in a post-apocalyptic world, why does it seem we rarely hear about or see them going through that further emotional trauma of leaving the memories behind?
I Don’t Want You To Like Me
I was contemplating a difficult scene in In Plain Sight today. The scene involves one of the characters being instantly confronted with a horribly traumatic series of events from their past, events that they’ve completely blocked from their memory. I’m struggling with how best to write the scene. I know what should happen, to be Read More
The Sad Girl: Meet Danny Cumberland
I wrote the short story that became The Sad Girl series back in 2008. Bryon Quetermous and Dave White were running something they called the Blogger’s Fiction Project, where a bunch of bloggers would all write shorts on the same topic and post them on the same day. They invited me to join in the Read More