Category: Writing

Last week, as part of the Valentine’s Day mystery story project - they may as well have called it “Love and Death” - I published a story here on the site, called “The Last Time“. It’s actually a …

A while back, I posted some rules for writers, written by people wiser than myself. I have just run across a few more, the rules of Eric Blair, better known by his pseudonym of George Orwell:

Never use a …

When you’re a writer, they’ll tell you that you’ve got to kill your darlings. Those four paragraphs about the hero’s car? Ditch it. That three page description of the heroine’s breats? Into the shitcan!

This can be …

Here’s a story that was posted last year at the late, lamented Flashing in the Gutters. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out, although in retrospect I think the opening is weak.

Update: I decided to …

I finished a story! Finally! This may not seem to be a big deal to many of you, but I haven’t finished anything since the first draft of a story (still unrevised) a year ago, and only two …