From Cinder, still very much in early 1st draft (this is from the second scene, and it was only written about an hour ago):
Outside, vast energies swirled, sending translucent streamers of pale light shivering over the crystal of the great window. Through them, she could see stars, shivering and sparkling through the bow-wake of [...]
I'm trying to work on a couple of projects, with some success. I've got a new site set up for a project I'm calling Cinder, and someday, maybe I'll fill it up with content. Right now I've got a cloud of ideas, but I wanted to get the design right. Ok, I [...]
So I got this email just now:
By the time you read this, your manuscripts will have already been rejected.
There's no sense in asking me why or what you could have done differently, because I've already moved on to other stories.
It wasn't you. It was me. I — Awww, who'm I kidding… [...]
Written today, the 29th of February:
She planted the seed and waited. After a while rain came down from the sky, pelting her skin, chilling her. She shivered but didn't leave, not yet.
The Sun came out, warming the soil, driving the cold from her bones. She waited. Clouds scudded by overhead, in a hurry for some [...]
So I've been having kind of mixed feelings about my online serial novel, Everything that never happened, which has been stalled since, oh, August or so. June, if I'm honest with myself. This week I decided to push it to the back burner, and work instead on Salyx, which is my 2006 Nano [...]
One of my recent ficlets, one that I'm particularly proud of:
The Trick
"You want to see a trick?"
Her eyes narrowed. "What kind?"
"Like nothing you've ever seen," he said, and took a swig straight from the bottle. Red wine stained his teeth. "Promise."
"All right." She leaned back in the chair as he stood up, crossed to the [...]
So I created a new ficlet this morning, called "Jenny, who is a dog". For those of you that haven't run across Ficlets, here's the idea: You go to the Ficlets website, sign up or sign in, and then you can create a "ficlet". A ficlet is a short-short story, or more accurately a [...]
…is the name of the Winnipeg Writers Festival, and this year one of the speakers is William Gibson.
I fully intend to be there for at least one of his events.
I try to make my ficlets complete stories, but not ones that can't have a sequel or a prequel added to them. It's not easy to make a complete story in 1024 characters or less.
Here's tonight's effort:
Right on the edge of the world
"Well that's a fine how do you do," muttered Rubin.
"What you mean, Rubin?" [...]
Not me, but the characters in a short piece I'm working on.
The cab dropped them off at Holla's, the nightclub's name written in white and blue neon on the building's side. Before they even got in the door they could hear the thump-thump-thump heartbeat of the music pounding through the walls and windows. [...]
My latest ficlet