Writing -any creative endeavor, really – is all about giving yourself permission to fail. Now, in one sense, that’s idiotic and ridiculous. The purpose of art is not to make something that’s bad. It’s not to allow something that’s bad to enter the market. The purpose of art is to make something that people respond… Read More WriteTip: When You Get Stuck, You Just Keep Going
The first draft of The Devil Left Him is finished. Read up to the penultimate chapter for free on Tablo. Just in Time for Lent, which, among other things, honors Jesus’ Fast in the Desert. The last chapter is done, too, but I’m holding on to it for now. It will be edited and then published… Read More One, Down, Two to Go…
…but I have been collecting followers on Tablo at a fairly rapid clip. Without too much promotion on social media, either. I’m going to chalk that up to the work appealing on some level. The last chapter of The Devil Left Him is started. I can still finish if I sit down and make it happen.… Read More I Don’t Know If This Means Anything…
First, update to The Party at the Last Tomorrow (Click image to go to Tablo and read it) I am now 4 chapters and about 8500 words into this one. That’s the least amount of progress on any of the things I’m working on right now, which is surprising because it’s the one I conceived earliest. I… Read More The Year of the Three Novellas (which are probably novelettes, but whatever)
First off, there’s a new chapter up. It’s actually an old chapter, since I update on Tablo one chapter behind. So When I finished Chapter 5 this morning, I made Chapter 4 available. I do it that way because it feels good not to be behind my audience. That means I have about 1, maybe… Read More Naming the Dark One: a “The Devil Left Him” Update
I fully enjoy the irony of that title. I did it on purpose. Anyway, here’s the second chapter. Actual temptation occurs, and Yeshua contemplates a world made of bread.
Chapter 3 of Void got finished last night (I’ve made some minor edits to the first few chapters). It will be part of Unnamed Journal, Issue 7, which is supposed to be out November 15th. That will be our year anniversary issue, so check the Facebook Page. Big changes will be afoot: a free back… Read More Progress on the Writing Front
One of the sci-fi novellas I’m working on right now, Void, has a theme about space travel and the hell it plays with time. When I wrote Solar System Blues, I avoided this by making the ship in question travel at below-light velocity, and deliberately making the voyage a long one. Even then, the fact that Burton… Read More Time in Space
A bit ago, I happened to rent Last Days in the Desert, an indie film with Ewan McGregor portraying both Jesus and Satan during Jesus’ forty days in the desert (Matthew 4). It was an interesting take on the idea, but the script wasn’t quite up to snuff, being primarily concerned with a family Jesus encounters… Read More New Fiction – The Devil Left Him: A Retelling of the Temptation of Christ
As promised earlier, here’s a first chapter of a post-apocalyptic homage to the Masque of the Red Death. Click to read for free on Tablo!
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