Under a scalding noonday sun with no breeze, Johnny Trimble rode at an easy gallop toward town. Well, toward where the town was supposed to be. What was it his StarCraft professor always said? A millimeter here is five billion miles out there? Something like that. Of course, you had to go some distance to turn a millimeter into a five-billion mile miss. When Johnny arrived today he would have traveled some eighty miles total. So … Read more
This content was previously posted on June 26, 2016 in the Daily Journal. I posted it here because of the valuable topic included below. Soon I might begin posting the Daily Journal here every day. Hey Folks, Probably today will be another non-writing day for me. Despite the fact that when I take a day away from writing fiction I feel itchy and annoyed. I gave my word to a couple of folks who quickly took … Read more
This is a topic of the day from my Daily Journal yesterday. I’m considering moving the Daily Journal over here and posting it to my Pro Writers list every day. If you’re reading this, you’re on that list. Anyway, here’s a topic of the day for you. Story Starters, Openings and How to Write Fiction One person asked me in an email yesterday where I get ideas and how I can move from story to story. … Read more
I hadn’t seen the road we were on, not even once, but it was rocky. I thought I had timed the lurching gait of the bus perfectly. But as I pushed down the window to admit the cool night air, the bus lurched again. My right hand shot out through the opening and the rising bus banged against the outside of my right wrist with the top edge of the window frame. As the bus dropped … Read more
Well, we’re back. My buddy and I got back from a trip to the Gila River around noon or so yesterday. It was beautiful down there, but it was also scorching hot during most of the day. Annoying, to say the least. On the other hand, the nights were cool, but not cold. Made for great satellite watching and late-night talk, which we refer to as The Slathering of Philosophy. I did no writing. But the … Read more
Hi Folks, Because many of you still haven’t made the switch to my Daily Journal, I decided to post this over here as well. This is for you, not me. Workshop Report I finally watched and listened to the Week 1 videos from Dean Wesley Smith’s Teams in Fiction workshop at about 6:30 last night. I expected them to be bland and boring in the first week. Nature of the beast. In the first week, because … Read more