Reading Time: 2 Mins. The crowd was there to hear him rail against the establishment, using words that were bigger than they understood. “He must be smart,” they said. With a wave of his hand he made them cheer and with another made them quiet, conducting them; an orchestra of hate. He spoke of unity…
The Signal – VSS Weekly 1 (400 words)
Reading Time: 2 Mins The Signal One by one the efficiency experts moved their way through the company and now here they were, in front of me and my entire division, talking about profits being down. Rohit looked like he was going to barf. He just had a kid. Sam put her hand on his…
Very Short Stories
Reading Time: 3 Mins I’ve been seeing #vss365 pop up on more tweets lately and knew it was a writing prompt of some sorts but wasn’t sure how to participate. I finally had the time yesterday to look into it and I was intrigued at what I found. Kudos and thanks to Natalie Gasper for…
Goal Setting
Reading Time: 3 Mins I started this month off with a very aggressive word count goal of 40 000 words and, with April right around the corner, it is clear to me now I will not be hitting that goal. In fact I won’t come anywhere near it. I could blame the fact that my…
Review: The Annual Migration Of Clouds
Reading Time: 4 Mins. I had been planning yesterday’s day trip for a while and knew that the visits to friends and family I haven’t seen in a long time – including a new baby girl in the family I hadn’t met yet – would be amazing, the eight hour drive time in the car…
Close To The Tree
Reading Time: 3 Mins I am fully aware that everything I am about to write might be coming from that proud parent place where your child’s potentially mediocre output is elevated to a level that others are just incapable of seeing. I have been guilty of this in the past, as has every parent, ever,…
The Shortest Month: Looking Back
Reading Time: 2 Mins When I look back at where I was only a month ago, I couldn’t be happier with where things are at with my writing today. It was about six weeks ago that I decided to absolutely make a go of my writing and focus on it as if it was a…
When Worlds Collide
Reading Time: 2 Mins I spent the majority of my writing time over the last two days composing a new draft of a query letter for Suddenly Normal. I had been introduced to this agent already and this opportunity to query came with a request for fifty pages, and they did not have to be…
The Family Trees
Reading Time: 5 Mins Family Day is complicated for me. I find myself today feeling nostalgic for what family once was to me, angry at what it became and grateful for what it now is. My life with my daughter and fiancée is amazing and I would not change a thing. Things are amicable with…
Plantsing
Reading Time: 3 Mins I was a part of a discussion recently that asked, “Are you a Plotter or a Pantser?” Meaning, do you plot out your manuscript meticulously or do you fly by the seat of your pants? Someone introduced me to the term “Plantser” and I feel like, right now anyway, that is…