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Five Hundred Words-Per-Week
September kind of snuck up on us there, didn’t it? And with it swarmed by the annual wash of changes that normally transpire at this same time: the train got busier this morning with the rush of...
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Post-Dystopian Novellas and Kicking Off a Brand New Project
Update: This project is concluded. Also, apparently there was a TV show with same name that has been bringing people here via searches. This is completely unrelated. I’ve been writing again. I know...
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6 Writing Projects You Should Be Thinking About As Autumn Arrives
Another installment from my third week of lists, a clinging-to-the-trees, back-to-school-special, dreading-impending-winter edition all about words, words words, words, more words, and getting those...
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5 Ways To Barter With Your Writing Skills For Food
Despite the mountains of rational evidence to the contrary there are still a lot of folks out there holding to the claim that come December 21, 2012 the ire of the universe will refocus upon the planet...
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To Share: Words
Once more it is June. Again. And again I embark upon that epic effort of daily blogging, take three, wherein I call upon myself for a kind of rambling focus, picking from a list of daily topics, and...
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Tall Tales: Exploring the Exaggeration of Existence
I’ve been fascinated for a number of years about the idea of writing personal tall tales. It’s a tough thing to explain why this is and where exactly this fascination blossomed into a full-on...
View ArticlePondering NaNoWriMo 2013
Tempted. Oh. So. Tempted. If weren’t going to be away for nearly a full week sometime in November, it would almost be a no-brainer. And I’ve got a really good idea stirring in my head, too, bubbling...
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Chapters from an Unwritten Storybook, Part One
Words are mere placeholders for this clutter of ideas that are collecting dust in the dark corners of my mind. You’d think it would be a simple thing to sort, clean, and set them out for air on pages...
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Photobia / Part the First
I’m not officially doing NaNoWriMo, but I thought I would write some random creative fiction this month anyhow. So, here’s something completely random… Photobia It was the invention of the digital...
View ArticleNew Aged Resolution
Not what you thinking… It’s just been a few days since my birthday and as thirty six treated me so well, I thought I’d better have some more clearly defined goals for thirty seven. Since I’ve been...
View ArticleReading: Old Posts
Ah, June… Summer is at our doorstep, the days are (almost all of them) seeming to get a little bit longer, and for the second year in a row I am partaking in my daily blogging exercise, marginally...
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To Share: That Novel I Wrote
This is it: the last day of June… and after twenty-nine previous posts I’m wrapping up my daily blogging exercise, marginally focused along a question-and-answer theme I’ve simply called Those 30 posts...
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5 Styles of Travel Writing I Wish I Did More Of
Travel writing is a special kind of narrative story telling that seems to offer so much potential. At home, we write about the every day, the observable, or the experienced in almost every word we pen,...
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Just Three: Writing by the Fire on a Cold Morning
This is a post from my “Just Three” Challenge, a 28-day photography project to capture a series of three-photo-story sequences — to tell a brief narrative using just three pictures taken that day. Each...
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Five Spring Blogging Plans to Record Your Amazing Summer
This is another instalment in my (sixth) Week of Lists: one fun and awesome list posted every day for seven days on a variety of topics. Just this past weekend I quietly celebrated another blog...
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Baylee the Bee
As a followup to my bit of a teaser yesterday about that kid’s book I’ve been working on, I thought I would share a few of the draft pages and some of the background story. It goes something like this…...
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Summer of Vulk
I’ve got a secret obsession. Or… maybe not so secret I don’t know: The thing is that I enjoy the idea of what I’m calling “augmenting reality.” Now here’s the thing: I’m not using the “technical”...
View ArticleDo you prefer to write with a pen or a pencil?
My preference at the moment is for the silky smooth feel of a fine-tip gel ink pen, usually in black ink. by 8r4d [8 Clicks From Nowhere @ http://blog.8r4d.com/]
View ArticleHabit
Write. Post. Write. Post. Pic. Post. Sometimes quantity is about reaching for something nearly ineffable that is only marginally knowable through brute force. by 8r4d [8 Clicks From Nowhere @...
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To Share: A Million (Words)
What posts in June? Oh, thooooose thirty posts in June… again. It seems that for the fourth year in a row I’ve climbed aboard the daily blogging train and continued that monumental, multi-year writing...
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