Writing/Author Challenges: Exposure and Networking

A trend among writers on Instagram is writing/author challenges this usually comes as month long or week long challenges each day has a theme and sometimes the challenges themselves are themed. The goal of the challenge is to give the writer a template to share their work in progress with others and those participating in …

Why write?

Damn good question! Why sit in front of a computer and type for minutes or hours. Would you believe me if I told you it's because I need to? All writers feel the need to write. Our minds are constantly creating stories and forming ideas we itch to get them wrote down or typed out. …

Midnight Heartbreak Revelry

Heartbreak can be dealt with in many ways, crying, drinking, rebounds the list goes on. For me I deal with it by writing and maybe a little drinking. I'm still dealing with it which is why I had to find an outlet. The product of that outlet is the snippet below that I wrote about …

Writing Prompt (Part 3)

Part Three   “I got the job after Keith popped up on my doorstep alive.” “After he left I couldn’t shake this Pierce guy he was scared of, so I called up some friends found out a little about him and got a job as a guard for the facility through a inside guy.” Henry …

Writing Prompt (Part 2)

Part Two Keith’s  heart jumped into this throat as the soldiers took aim at them. Teresa smiled the bullet proof vest under her shirt felt like a hug from an old friend, she fired a shot hitting one of the soldiers in the shoulder, the smell of gunpowder filled her nose and sent a thrill …

Writing Prompt (Part One)

This is part one in a four part story inspired by a writing prompt, I hope you enjoy.   "It'll be easy. You just have to seduce them." "You're kidding, right?" "I'm about as seductive as a cabbage." She gestured in a sweeping motion to her attire which made her look like she was ready …

Not Sammy Hagar’s Heavy Metal

Friday night I went to my first ever Heavy Metal show, it was at a little grungy venue called The End and this place lived up to it's name. It was run down practically held together with a lick and a prayer, not that you'd want to lick anything in this place might get something …

Weird, Strange, Anti-Social…

Weird, strange, anti-social, talks to their self...crazy? No it's just a writer, that strange little gollum like creature that keeps muttering to themselves doesn't have more personalities than the guy from Split, it's their creative process, either that or caffeine meals and sleep deprivation have taken a toll. They are relatively harmless and don't want …

Perspective: A Four Day Weekend

This weekend I have tried to make the most of my mini-vacation from work. Yesterday I went to the local library and browsed, checked out some books and snapped a few photos. It's been long time since I last utilized any local library where I lived, it's one of those things I tend to forget …

Beta Reading

I recently did two different Beta Reads my first ever, the two authors were completely different in their approach. One was very detailed and clear in the beginning what they were looking for the other just wanted an overall opinion of the book. Author 1 gave me one chapter at a time and I was …