Category Archives: WRITING

Sometimes it seems one must be in a certain frame of mind to write (sick at heart, completely shattered at the) and I’m not sure if it’s just mood, or rather what one reads that may serve to inspire (delusions … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Threw the story I’ve been working on up for workshop critique at our writers group website in the hope of getting some help with it.  And naturally, the second I did that, even after spending most of today tweaking and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ya know, sometimes you do it just to feel like you’ve done something as a writer.  So yes, Gazpacho has been sent out to a fine literary journal because they just happened to be taking submissions and they take them … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There was a doorway and within its recess, a door, locked against him. He found a ring of keys inside his pocket and tried them one by one until he heard the silent clicking of the tumblers. He pushed it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is what I’m currently working on, these are the first couple sentences: George DePaoli was clearly dying and it didn’t matter much, but it was taking longer than he’d thought. His final hours had dragged on through the night … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve learned to keep away from the print function when writing.  Though I do, I will admit, save all the wasted copies, tear the sheets in half and use the clean side as scrap paper.  Another writer, I’ve noticed at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just got a neat idea, for maybe this winter or sometime next spring or summer:  Really get away to that cabin in the woods, or maybe by a lake, or somewhere for a week with just a few writer friends.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

But of the best sort.  Closed inside a room away from all and everything.  The hum of the a/c blocking out all other noise.  That cabin in the woods I’ve sought to hide away in; got it for one day, … Continue reading → Continue reading →