In this series, I will take the Word of the Day from Dictionary.com and craft a short piece of creative writing around it. My goal is to embrace the meaning of the word in some unique way, all the while trying out different styles, rhythms and characterizations. It is as much an exercise in creativity as it […]
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August 26, 2014
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Keeping the novel(ty) from wearing off
The past five months (has it really only been five months?!), I’ve been writing and editing my debut novel, Rising Son. It all started with a tiny, itsy bitsy, minuscule story grain that smacked clear into my dendrites one late fall day last year. That granular seed became a single character trait, which eventually grew into […]