Category: Short Fiction
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A new character arrives
I knew Jace Winter would be meeting Kih Soh Hohito in this section. What I did not know was that a new character, Quin, would appear. Yet his arrival makes perfect sense. I don’t know him yet. I have an idea of what he’ll have to do in this story and the ones to follow,…
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The funny thing about humans
I’ve been working on Help Wanted on and off as I’ve had the energy. Last time I updated the WIP bar, I had 6013 words total in the story. I now have 7654, so that’s 1641 since I last posted. Not 500 a day by any means, but still something. Today I got to figure…
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“Not Quite Who I Had In Mind”
518 words, bringing me over 6000, so halfway done. What I got tonight is too expository, and I’m going to have to fix it in revision, but the bones of it are pretty good—and it sets up the “reason why” for what I hope to write as a a series of short stories. How were…
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Facing Devastating Failure
My heroine has been going through hell in hopes of achieving a tremendous goal, only to have everything she worked for ripped away from her because she chose integrity over compromise. 754 words tonight. Story, Help Wanted. Headache is pretty bad right now, but I finished out scene two with a nice cliffhanger. How are…
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Back To Fiction
I’ve had to take a bunch of days off, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. However, when I’ve been up to it, I’ve been working. On Rebel Tales, on NovelWritingSchool.com, and also on fiction. I was doing pretty well with TalysMana, but my daughter has some scheduling problems right now, so we’re having…
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Review of “Light Through Fog”
I wrote the short story “Light Through Fog” for the collection The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance because I needed a live project to demonstrate my techniques in the How To Think Sideways course, and I had to have the pressure of writing something that was commissioned, had a hard (and very close) deadline, and…