Posts Tagged ‘Fiction’
Extreme Writing Now Network ~ Episode 1, Memoirs
Sunday, July 25th 2010, Extreme Writing Now went live with the inaugural episode of the Extreme Writing Now Network radio show on Blog Talk Radio. The show opened up a weekly broadcast that can be heard every Sunday at 6:30 EST (-5 GMT) at Extreme Writing Now Network. The [Read More]
Weekly Round Up at Extreme Writing Now ~ July 11 2010 thru July 17 2010
This Past Week at Extreme Writing Now Flash Fiction The Long Road Home (Part 5) The Eye Of The Dragon ~ 55 Spoken Words The Long Road Home (Part 4) Looking Back At Norman The Long Road Home (Part 3) The Long Road Home (Continued) Bird on a Wire Veil of Destruction The Long [Read More]
A Girl’s Gotta Make A Living ~ Flash Fiction
A little flash fiction about the current economy? Or is this about a successful ‘career woman’? As a shaker started to rattle nearby, Tony what’s his name leaned in a little closer. Just over the martini being tossed around with the ice, “I think most men [Read More]
Looking Back At Norman
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Usually, they try to swat me, but this Psycho was trying to stare me down. Relatives reported that his mother was extremely tasty. Tied to that chair, she made easy pickings. A veritable feast. Norman had his mom’s eyes – but not for much longer. Another chair [Read More]
Bird on a Wire
“Baby sing me a song, ‘bout a bird on a wire” his eyes sweetly pleaded, though she was so tired. She grabbed the guitar, but he’d broke all the strings.“Reconciliation, my little bird sings”, he said with a smirk, you could say he’s a jerk- but love makes you [Read More]
Human Storms
Little six year old Veronica was bracing herself for the storm that was about to hit. That is how she thought of the fights that her parents had, they were like human storms. The winds of anger would start to blow. The shouting was like the rolling thunder. Her [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ The End
Series Building A Short Story» All good things must come to an end, and so it is for our series, Eight weeks ago, we started with a piece fully intending to create a much larger work of fiction from the micro-fiction cornerstone. Our goal was to reach the [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ The Deep End
Series Building A Short Story» We announced yesterday that this was the 6th installment in our series, Building A Short Story. Well, we were wrong, because this is actually week 7. We have come a long way since we started with our piece as a to build our short story [Read More]
Wife Comes Home From Visiting Her Mother
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Pots filled with decaying food adorn the stove in the tiny, once charming kitchen. Trash, clothes, and sand cover the new hard wood floor. There’s a stench coming from the corner… Ashley is afraid to look. Could there be something dead over there? Someone? If he’s not [Read More]
Shrinkage? The Bliss Of Virginal Ignorance.
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Jill walked along the trail near the icy creek attempting to calm her anger. How could Steven do that to her? Did rejecting him the night before carry over to work? As Jill rounded the corner Steven stepped out of the water naked. She laughed uncontrollably. Even she [Read More]
The Garden
Mangled vines give way to digital blooms. The harvest, perpetual. Eve, enrobed in layers of code, recoils from the red, round object in Lilith’s hand. “Here” Lilith presses, her breath teeming with the life of long forgotten truths, “It’s the only [Read More]
John Grisham Tries the Case Of Children’s Fiction
Legal thriller ace John Grisham, author of 24 published novels, has attacked the world of youngster yarns with his latest book, Theodore Boon: Kid Lawyer, and talks about the most difficult aspect of writing a novel for a young audience in the NPR article, [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ Jumping to 220
Welcome to the third installment in our series, Building a Short Story. If you have been following along, then you know that we started to build a short story by writing a 55 word fiction piece in the post The Micro-Fiction Cornerstone, and are attempting to create a [Read More]
Cloning For Dollars ~ Flash Fiction
“In national news today, federal officials investigating last week’s suicide Dr. Gerald Dean, prominent genetic researcher, say they may have a link between millions of embezzled grant dollars and Dean’s gambling addiction…” [Read More]
Stay ~ Flash Fiction Piece
Edgar exhausted himself on the truth, but the State saw a different truth. So he found Jesus and accepted his fate. He was served his last meal and made his final walk. He was determined not to shuffle, but to walk like a man. [Read More]
From 55 Words To 110, Our Fiction Sees Growth
Last week, we opened our series, Building a Short Story, by introducing a method of constructing a valid short piece from a micro-fiction, 55 word fiction to be exact, and rewriting by doubling the word count with each edit [Read More]
Building a Short Story ~ The Series Continues
Tomorrow, May 28th, we continue our series, Building a Short Story, by starting with a micro-fiction piece and rewriting by doubling the word count until we have a bona fide short story. [Read More]
A/S/L ~ Flash Fiction Piece
This Flash Fiction piece is all about turning the table. Pursuing the pursuers. Motives that began with revenge, but have transformed into a game of self-gratifying need. In the end, we are left with the tough choice of whether or not to root for the Just. [Read More]
Give Your Story Depth With World Building
There are murals on the flood walls that protect Portsmouth Ohio from the occasional fits of anger that the mighty Ohio River hurls at the city. Murals that depict the city in various stages of its past. [Read More]
The Micro-Fiction Cornerstone
Micro-Fiction is often seen as a joke, but try and satisfy all the requirements of 55 word story, for example, and then tell me it's a joke. You need characters, plot and resolution, all in 55 words exactly. [Read More]
