You may have noticed I have a quote from Kurt Vonnegut at the bottom of my home page. It’s one of my favorite quotes of all time, and Vonnegut is one of my favorite writers. I tossed that quote to an AI LLM, ChatGPT. I have mixed feelings about AI. It’s a great research tool, […]
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It’s time for another blog post generated by an online writing prompt. This picture and prompt popped up on Facebook. My writing reflex was triggered. I hope you like it. Mila’s apartment was located right in the center of the lacrimal caruncle. Specifically, it was in the left lacrimal caruncle of eight-year-old Toby Felix. Toby
This is an entire chapter from my novel, Talisgate. It’s Chapter 45, to be precise. I don’t normally share full chapters from a place so deep in my stories because context is important, and you should have some background before diving into something so far along the arc of the story. But I feel like
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My response to another writing prompt found online. I encourage anyone learning to write, and anyone who wants to be a better writer, to take the time to respond to challenges like this one. They are great exercise. I see you staring at me. “Who’s the freaky old man with the bulging eyes?” Go ahead.
Someone asked this question online. I replied with what you see below. How did I become an author? That’s a great question; however, I don’t think it’s the right one. I think the right question is, “How did you discover you are a writer?” I’ll assume that’s the correct approach and tell you my story
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As I write this, the 2024 college football season is about to begin. I know a lot of people have a lot of things to say about college football. I’m one of them. But I’m not going to talk about football here. I’m going to talk about something else, something deeper, and something more important.
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A few years ago, I wrote a novel called “Motes.” The title of the book comes from the term used to describe particles of dust. Each particle is called a “mote.” There are alien creatures in the story from ten light-years away who are smaller than a dust mote. A human boy in the story
If you have talked to me much about my writing, you will know that I often employ something I call a “mini-story” to illustrate some aspect of a character. I step outside the plot stream and have the narrator relate a short, “There was this one time …” kind of story. If you’ve read the
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Here’s another response to a writing prompt found online. I hope you like it. They say the camera never lies, but it does. You can’t trust pictures. People edit, enhance, crop, and otherwise manipulate photography all the time, so the camera can lie all it wants with complete impunity. Portals? Portals are a different thing
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Here’s another response to a writing prompt online. The prompt was just this picture with the text, “He’s a character in your new novel. Tell us about him.” Below is what I wrote. The seer stepped from the trunk of an unnaturally large oak situated in the deepest, thickest part of the forest, just as
