Flash Fiction: Revenge Reborn
This week’s flash fiction challenge had a simple challenge: introduce a dead body in the first paragraph. (read the full challenge at terribleminds.com)
This week’s flash fiction challenge had a simple challenge: introduce a dead body in the first paragraph. (read the full challenge at terribleminds.com)
This flash fiction challenge was a type of writing prompt I’ve never attempted before. You can see the challenge post at terribleminds.com.
The challenge was 1,000 words on a random photo from Flickr’s weekly interesting photos.
Another flash fiction entry from terribleminds.com.
This challenge, in honor of Mad Max: Fury Road, was to write a 2,000 word story featuring a car chase.
So I’ve been gone a while.
A long while.
A really long while.
Ok, I haven’t put anything new up in like 6 months. Read more “Introducing My Comeback…Again?” →
I am a firm believer that the first step toward mastery is education. I like to gather all of the information I can about a new task in order to learn all about it.
I find this technique has two benefits. First, it gives me a good understanding of how to do that task properly, and all the history of how it has done before. Second, and I feel more importantly, when I know all there is to know about a subject I know how to break the rules properly and bend them to my needs.
That’s why it’s important for me to know WHAT the cliches in fantasy are, so that I can avoid or incorporate them as needed.