Category Archives: WRITING

It was weird, I know, so I’m trying to mentally retrace my steps to figure out how I came home from grocery shopping with a full grown Bengal tiger in the back seat of my car.  And a lava lamp.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We had had an excellent discussion about Molly’s story Devotion on Wednesday night, and it brought up the question of using multiple point of view.  I happen to really like it, though in many ways it can be considered a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Life cycles in circles except when it spirals and you find yourself hanging in space. Continue reading →

No opening lines, false starts or examples of dialogue, character, setting and such.  A whole story emerged this past week and it’s done–up to the point of rewites and editing. A new form of hypertext, completely written and read online … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is one of the neatest things about writing into the hypertext storyworld: you can have fun. What drew him there he couldn’t tell you.  It was an instinct that he could not fight with any rational argument.  He crossed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve been doing lots of writing of story the past three days into a new form of hypertext that’s available online at a site called Hypertextopia.  I started playing with it and a story just came together to fit the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Will possibly–with the Professor’s approval–submit a hypertext that I’ve been working on to the class for workshopping.  I can wait until the final scheduled workshops of the semester, and maybe spark some interest that way in the New Media II … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Discovered Hypertextopia and have already started writing a hypertext story online into it.  Actually, Yolanda and her bottle of beer from a couple posts down seemed perfect to play with the method and means. Continue reading →

Or anything silly, or just lift the restrictions that keep us tied to a pompous and pious reality.  Then will the stories, unshackled by learned inhibitions, become the fun uplifting narratives that come from eggplant dreams. Continue reading →

Wandering from one  server to another, lost between the hostels then setting up the sticks and buffalo hide to rest a season, maybe more. Carolyn aka Chameleon, Serendipity, et al, has settled in (fer shure this time) at The Koala … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There is a tendency these days to build upon success, what used to be known in the old days as riding someone else’s coattails, and we see this particularly in the area of television drama.  CSI worked in Vegas, so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

What’s also kind of neat–although I can’t write on demand yet–is that I can take a simple scenario from reality and turn it into something that grows from there.  Purist that I’ve been, I’ve always avoided taking anything from reality … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Odd; I’ve been through this course before and I’ve read all the Flash Fiction anthologies and never without some type of constipated pain was able to easily write the short-short-short story.  I’m spitting them out lately though and they appear … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Following the rules of story arc, the writing of a story goes through the same conflicts (loss of inspiration, technical glitches, losing the file) and builds to a climax and resolution.  The climax is: the story’s finished–or at least as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Developing a thicker skin is not necessarily the answer when accepting reality would be the more obvious and less painful thing to do. Continue reading →