peteyfrogboy

heatermcca's post this morning put me in the mood to write a little story. It wasn't enough of an idea to spin out very far, so I decided to try it as a drabble (a story exactly 100 words long).

( A Drabble )

A story I felt compelled to write today. Behind a cut for your convenience.

( Story: The Explorer )

The van is being sold off to the mechanic, and last night we rushed up to a dealership on the other side of Atlanta to get a shiny new orange Fit. Glad that's taken care of (except for locating or replacing the AWOL van title, grr).

I got a rejection on "A Good Night's Work" (thanks to sirjcva for the title) this morning. It included some useful commentary, which makes me happy. They said that it seemed like part of a larger work, so maybe I should get off my butt and write "The Furhter Adventures of...". I still have to do a little more thinking on how the Manhunters' Guild fits into my evolving world, but I think I can manage it. I also need more characters...

I've been doing a little world building lately, and I needed to see how it actually worked in narrative form.

( Loria )

After the discussions about the moral issues surrounding artificial intelligence over on the Drabblecast boards, I decided to cook up this little story. It's pretty rough, but I can live with it.

( Purpose Built )

This is a little writing exercise inspired by sailormur's News From Poughkeepsie.

( The Baker's Daughter )

My story "Time Shift" is up on the Drabblecast today. Go have a listen!

I'm creating a filter for the stories I've been writing lately. Part of this is so that only the people who really want to read them have to bother seeing the posts. I also want to be able to post them without the risk of them being considered "published" for being on a publicly accessible web page.

If you want to be included, leave a comment.

On a lark, I decided to submit the story I wrote back in June to Drabblecast, a sci-fi flash fiction podcast I'd heard plugged on Escape Pod. I didn't really think it would get accepted, but I figured there was no harm in sending it. To my surprise, they offered me cash money to put it on the podcast!

As much as I like the idea of writing, I'm really not very good at it. Often, I get bogged down in the world building process. I'm no good at writing in the real world, since I haven't really had any good first hand experience of any of the interesting bits. That leaves me with either trying to build a functional quasi-historical fantasy setting or a plausible futuristic sci-fi setting. Today I'm puttering with the latter.

( Crunchy Bits (warning: long) )

The basic premise of this story came to me in a dream last night (corny, but true!). I fleshed it out a little and present it here behind a cut for your convenience.

( Time Shift )