Chess Weasel opened the window to the study and slipped in. The large mansion had once intimidated him. Now it was his home. Or as close as it came to one other than the streets. Raymond was where he always was. Sat behind his big desk. Dark wood. It felt like stepping into a library.Continue reading “Flash Friday #30”
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So where are the readers?
I’ve been looking for places to post my work. I’ve written a million words of sci-fi/fantasy and I’ve been looking for a place to post some work that will likely not be published traditionally. I’ve been posting on fiction press, a site for internet novels. I had hoped to get readers. Instead, I got spam.Continue reading “So where are the readers?”
Flash Friday #29
Bombardier In the silence of space, the vast hulking shape of the spaceship slowed to a crawl, its engines pointed away. On the diplomatic deck, the governor of the rebellious planet began to make his speech. One about being pushed too far and that she tried all that she could in order to spare theContinue reading “Flash Friday #29”
The Quest #30
Back at it. Two up, none down. I’m using my new query letter and will be going until I have ten queries out at a time. Going to take a bit to get there, but it is a numbers game. I’m not sure that I have much else to add right now. I think allContinue reading “The Quest #30”
Flash Friday #28
Bobbing The storm grew dark and the sea grew green. Waves ten feet tall sloshed over the quay. Crates were thrown against the stone. Thunder roared. In the café, Benny watched it all. He got terribly sea sick and couldn’t go out with his grandfather. What a life, the sea sick son of a sailor.Continue reading “Flash Friday #28”
Finished Book
So the last time I had a non-quest related post I wrote some of my book writing plans. Well, after I posted that and turned my attention to my daily writing, I realized that it would not take much to finish the book. So I finished the book that night. It took about seven hundredContinue reading “Finished Book”
The Quest # 29
No new queries. No outstanding rejections. In the mean time I’ve done a lot of reading of other people’s queries and have changed mine around. I rewrote the central paragraphs describing the plot, and cleaned up the first paragraph. I also added that I had been published before. In hindsight it feels like a bigContinue reading “The Quest # 29”
Flash Friday#26
Beneath the Walls Aethshus watched the walls. It was fast becoming a habit. There was little else to do once he had looked over his equipment. Today was a quiet day in the siege, one where neither side tried anything. Most days should have been like that, only this siege was unlike any other. ForContinue reading “Flash Friday#26”
Changing tack
I am just about finished with my book of the year, the adventure story. I won’t say much more about it now, I want to finish. After that, however, I will be gearing up to write the second. This one I aim to be short, and given my current writing speed, will be about threeContinue reading “Changing tack”
Flash Friday #25
Earworm A little tune bobbed through the hedges. The singer, a woman in a red hat, sang the words. “One day, one day you will be mine, baby.” Behind the hedge there was a man in thick denim. He trimmed the hedge and heard the woman singing. The tune wormed its way into his mind.Continue reading “Flash Friday #25”
Michael Frutig 