Looks like I may be back to writing poetry again. Thank you Carrie for these wonderful prompts from Carrie’s Tips… Weight Dragging every step Strange feeling for being empty A mere wisp engaging to the fullest Filling every crevice, every nook, every hole, every pain Now it lays dark, scraping the soul Even deflated...
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This is my answer to Carrie’s poetry prompt Self Destructive Forces I have loved her My heart beats for her I held her dearly I have poisoned her Now she flinches My heart bleeds from torn edges
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Short visions of stepping stones, a view of realism.
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Almost every listing on every Freelance Writing job board asks for the resumé and portfolio of all those inquiring about the position. In fact, almost to the tee, we are asked for as link to those items. If you have your own web site that is dedicated to your freelancing business, then you are...
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As a , are you  saving words on the back end of a job by spending a few on the front end, or do you not care that every re-write you do as a freelancer cuts your pay in half? That’s right, every extra word digs into your pocket by taking time away from...
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Victoria Twead, author of the book Chickens, Mules, and Two Old Fools, stopped in at EWN today for chat. What great fun we had, as we talked about the book (just a bit), the World Cup, El Hoyo, and Joe. The chat really was more like a chat than a proper interview. Carrie stopped...
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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 requirements for a short story (1001...
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“To have an old friend visit from far away – what a delight!” What if that old friend was you? The quote just mentioned is from the introduction to Natalie Goldberg’s book, “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir.” It was a birthday present from a dear friend and I thought...
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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 upon. The story has...
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One sure way to get repeat work from a client is to him/her feel good.  With most clients who are hiring freelance writers to provide web content, making them feel good means making them some cash. That IS the reason they hired us in the first place, is it not? Let’s face it, whatever...
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Series Building A Short Story» Well, here we are at week 6 in our series, , and we are saying good-bye to flash fiction; never to bring this story back to its micro-fiction roots of the tale it started out as. A quick recap: we, and myself, wanted to get the creative juices flowing...
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Our series, Building A Short Story, pulls into the last station on the Flash Fiction Line. That's right, our 55 word fiction piece is about to experience the fourth word count doubling since we established it as the cornerstone for a short story.
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Well here we are, week 4 of our series, Building A Short Story, and we are now sitting on 440 words. This installment will be the next to the last step before we start plunging into the official short story realm.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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I struggled with creating fictional characters in that they all seemed two dimensional at best. For the most part, my characters seemed flat or like paper dolls. I made a discovery recently that seems to help me create and develop characters that are more alive and meaningful. I quit creating them with names and...
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I mean, let's be real, who else would find complete and utter pleasure in trying to write a complete story by using exactly 55 words, no more, no less? Could only be a pain for pleasure idiot like myself. The 55 word story was conceived by the founder of the New Times newspaper of San...
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How do you handle your blog comments? I'm not asking just about the ones that come into your own blog, but the comments you give as well.
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