There is something you need to know about a barrel roll. If you are a passenger in a plane that is doing a barrel roll you are convinced that the pilot has lost all sanity and has put your lives in the hands of fate in some misguided hope that physics will not pick this … Continue reading Picking A Single Thread to Pull
Month: January 2018
The Molasses Marathon and RBC Week 3: The Magic Virus (excerpt)
This is now the fourth week of 2018. By all accounts I should be hard at work on my 4th short story in the Ray Bradbury Challenge (and technically, I am. More on that in a bit).But Todd, if you're working on the 4th story, where is the story from Week 3??That is a good … Continue reading The Molasses Marathon and RBC Week 3: The Magic Virus (excerpt)
Turn And Face The Strange
Disclaimer: This post is not really for you. It's for me. It will quite likely be disjointed and random and provide too much information in to the way my mind works through stuff. If you want the rainbow-farting unicorn/everything is awesome all the time Todd, you probably shouldn't read this. This might shatter any preconceived … Continue reading Turn And Face The Strange
RBC Week 2: The Party Crasher
We are in the second week of the year 2018, and I am (so far) sticking to this particular goal/resolution. I'm speaking of course of Ray Bradbury's challenge to new writers. Part of this challenge (and the one that many writers including myself seem to focus on) is to write a short story a week … Continue reading RBC Week 2: The Party Crasher
Lost In The Forest All Alone
Sitting in a Starbucks off of the interstate. It doesn't really matter which state, or even which highway for that matter. Nor does the particular Starbucks matter. They are all the same. There is the corporate individuality that is not wholly unique to a franchise coffee shop. Some things are the same. Some touches of … Continue reading Lost In The Forest All Alone
RBC Week 1: Last Chance
One of the 2018 goals I have set for myself as a writer is to follow the advice of one of my author-heroes, Ray Bradbury. He is said to have advised new writers to write a story a week for 52 weeks as it was impossible to write 52 bad stories in a row. We … Continue reading RBC Week 1: Last Chance