The first attempt of a cover design for my free digital StoryStarters (writing prompts) book due out in September.
Will add more details soon.
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Locked Away
The brass lock on the door had fed my imagination for years. As a boy, it had been the curiosity of what lay behind a closed door. As I grew older, it had been the mystery of why I’d never seen anyone open it. Finally, the strange location of the locked door alone had been [...]
Rocky Balboa has become more than a simple movie character. He’s an icon. He has inspired athletes for years with his underdog story, his dedication, and his determination. His training sequences have been shown in football locker rooms in high schools all over the country to motivate players.
But does Rocky have anything for writers? You [...]
Patches of splintered sunlight fell through the canopy onto the forest floor, writhing and twisting like flaming souls attempting escape from Hell.
Josh stood dead still, mimicking the statues surrounding him. Shadows bent, blending into the crevices of ancient stonework on the building in the center of the circle as they moved. The slight rustling of [...]
She closed her eyes, lifted her face to the sun and smiled. Breathing in deep, she whispered, “No place like home.”
“Sure you wanna walk from here in this weather?”
“I’ve been gone for too long,” she said, taking a bill from her purse and passing it to the cab driver, “so I wouldn’t dream of passing [...]
As writers, we want to be heard. We want people to sit up and pay attention to what we have to say, whether it is real or the fictional stories we weave together with our words. In short, we want to be read.
Traditionally, being read meant finding a publisher. Pique their interest enough and they [...]
I’ve had the great pleasure of creating the eBook covers for Bob Spear’s Enos Hobson Leavenworth Mystery series. The first four novels are available in multiple digital formats from Smashwords.
This is a short story I wrote quite a few years back (2005) based on something my daughter made one night while playing and her explanation of what it was for. It was one of the first things I wrote after neglecting writing for a long time. It needs a serious rewrite, but I’m posting [...]
Here is a poster I did for the stage play my wife, Lisa, is writing for Script Frenzy. It will also work as a book cover if she decides to expand it into a novel.
Photo by dunikowski
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License
Title not only give a name to a story, they can inspire the story. Last Friday we had Title Day at #storystarters. Some amazing titles were tweeted. If you need a title, feel free to use one, or simply use them to inspire an entire story. You can view the entire day worth of titles [...]
During the last week of February, we held the first #StoryStarters Genre Week on Twitter. For those not familiar with #StoryStarters, they are 125 character writing prompts on Twitter to give your muse a kickstart. Over the course of 5 days during Genre Week, there were certain genre themed #StoryStarters posted each day. The 5 [...]
