Before I go into my year-end statistics overview, a happy announcement. I had two stories go live last month,
“Tumbleweeds and Highways” was published in Clean Sheets.
“Web of Death” was published in MicroHorror.
I also finished the month on 100 Words which you can read at Val Gryphin’s December Batch.
Go check them out and if you have [...] Read more »

Because the pipe under my kitchen sink – of which the u-joint was replaced a few weeks ago with a new plastic part rather than the metal joint it did have – just separated where the metal and plastic meet. As I was Drainoing the sink, I got sprayed with hot Draino-water.  And no, this [...] Read more »

the blogging must go on – particularly as I haven’t been blogging much over NaNo.
I am starting 100 words, and I think it will be a really good thing for me. While I am finishing my NaNo. heh. Here’s today’s.

She thought that the sensation of the migraine was like someone taking tweezers, and slowly pulling [...] Read more »

I was looking up Tom Waits on Wikipedia and I came across this quote talking about how his voice sounds
“like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car.”

Ok, so it’s not what you would call perhaps, [...] Read more »

I’ve known quite a few writers who feel like outlining their short story or novel is the best and more efferent way to get their writing done. Often they also like to do character sketches either before or during the writing process because they feel like this helps them to fully understand their protagonists and [...] Read more »