Flash Fiction Acceptance: Shroud Publishing
My latest flash fiction piece, Creepy Crawleys, has been selected for an upcoming anthology entitled NORTHERN HAUNTS, 100 Terrifying New England Tales from horror publisher Shroud Publishing
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There’s Writin’ To Do!
I'm pulling a Doctor Houseman (of Dirty Dancing fame) and putting anything non-NaNo related in the corner. NaNoWriMo starts in 9 days and I'm scrambling to finish my outline. I foolishly had grand plans to continue working on my shorter pieces while I do NaNo. Yeah – I think I was a little delusional when…
Of the Heart
Why can't we be like the Ancient Egyptians, who believed that all of our thoughts, reasoning and logic were done with our hearts, rather than our heads? What would our world be like? Would we all be much happier? [NWC]
Carnivalesque
I'm starting to hear my main character's voice in my head while I write. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?! I can tell I'm deep into the story now, because I tend to think almost hyperactively, type furiously and flit around the house doing this and that and so-many-different-things-all-at-the-same-time. Phew! Either way,…
Hypnagogic
After last night's 11pm coffee fix, I almost couldn't turn my brain off, and ended up writing for another 3 hours. I suppose I shouldn't complain – there was a time where words failed to come to me at all, so really the inconvenience of having to get out of bed at 3am, turn the…
Room With A View
After brainstorming on 4 different short story ideas over the past week, I finally settled on one for my entry for the Candlelight Anthology. t took me 2 days and approx. 6 pages of handwritten notes to flesh out the plot and piece it together so it made sense, but having finally decided that I…