I’ve been a long time lurker on the Write Anything website. They have a lot of good articles on writing and every once and a while they post these fun little exercises.
I’ve normally just done them off-line, but I thought I would share this one.
The point of this exercise was to write a 10 line [...]
4 years ago, on August 23 2006, I started blogging. It was a way of telling the universe that I was committed to writing – for real this time.
I started on blogger, and you can read from the beginning up until August 2008 (when I moved to WordPress) @ http://dustandstrangerthings.blogspot.com/ – but only until the [...]
Well the count down has begun. A little over three days until Christmas eve and whether you celebrate the day or not we all have a few vacation days coming up in advance of the new year.
Just wanted to take this moment to wish you all a wonderful end of the year.
Pre-Xmas Updates:
Great news!
Both of the flash fiction stories that I submitted to the Absolute Xpress Flash Fiction Challenge: Creatures of the Night, have been accepted for publication.
That means that by Christmas I’ll have 5 short stories published this year alone. How awesome is that?
Here is something else that’s awesome. While I was at Con-Version (Calgary’s Science [...]
Starting on Sunday, author Lynda Williams and I are doing a continuation of our panel from Con-Version: Calgary’s Speculative Fiction Conference.
At Con-Version, I did a panel with Lynda called “Women who don’t kick butt: Can they still win hearts and minds?”. We discussed how women have been portrayed in genre fiction and how our society [...]
So perhaps I wasn’t as ready to start a new novel as I thought, but I needed to do something while I wait to see what happens to my novel “Ice Debt” (see this post – update 7).
But I was stuck. I love building worlds but it wasn’t coming to me this time.
I tried the [...]
Published on January 1, 2010, this anthology is a collection of interwoven short stories. 
