Hook, Line and Sinker — Story Openings (Part 1)
The Hook Distractions. The world is full of them. The modern world even more so. There are a thousand things a potential reader could be doing other than reading your story (or novel, or screenplay, etc.). Even a reader who is willing to cooperate--who has made the...
Tears | 50 Word Short Story
Raising the fiction bar on Steemit one 50 word story at a time, @jayna has issued a new writing prompt for the 50 Word Story Challenge. I haven't ever tried flash fiction at this length before, so I thought I'd give it a shot. The latest prompt for the challenge is:...
The Tengu – Something I’ve been working on
The sounds entered his dream like tendrils of smoke, drifting through the cracks in his consciousness until finally there was nowhere left for him to escape it but to waken. Unusual sounds in the night did not ordinarily bother Steve Vannon. So when he found himself...
First Post – Feels like I should say something commemorative
Lots of people have blogs and lots of writers have blogs. This is mine. Although, I must confess not my first one. That one has been lost in the mists of internet time along with the first domain I ever bought (sadly, I failed to renew it and now it sits there like an...