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
This is the first chapter of my new book, Talisgate – To Save a Sojourner. This is Book 2 in a planned trilogy. I am working hard to get this installment done this year, hopefully by the end of the summer. WARNING! – This chapter contains spoilers for anyone who has not finished reading the
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This is another response to an online writing prompt. I share these just to show that writing can be practiced all the time, even when you only have a few minutes to spare. Responding to prompts like this one are a great way to keep you skills sharp. I hope you like this one. Feel
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Here’s another response I wrote to a visual prompt. Those of you who have read my first novel will notice I am liberally borrowing names from that work. What can I say? I’m lazy. Za’ahana would never go back. None of them would. He was the last. He took one long, last look at the
This was a prompt I ran across on Facebook a while back. I hope you enjoy it. Anthony planted his left foot firmly into the packed soil in front of the imposing door, placing his right shoulder against the wood, anticipating the effort he was sure would be required to pass into the alchemist’s laboratory.
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I am in the process of writing the second book in the Talisgate series. Early in the book, Troy and Molly learn that Sojourner is a Tolkien fan. Actually, he’s more than a fan, but I’ll leave it to you to read the book and learn more about that. Here is a passage in which
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