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Song Styles
This week, I heard a song on a television show I enjoy – The Blacklist, for the curious – that caught my attention. I had to seek it out. As soon as I heard the whole thing, I was hooked. It appeals to the wanderer instinct, the rhyth…
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Wednesday Wanderings
A while back, I posted about how critiquing can be valuable for writers – not just the process of getting outside eyes on your work, but the act of reading critically, bringing your reactions together, and phrasing them in an effective manner. To…
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Song Styles
I’ve always thought that song lyrics, out of context, can make excellent story prompts for writers. For my flash / poetry boot camp, I took a line from a Rihanna song – “I’m lost, you’ve got me looking for the rest of me” – though I didn’t end up…
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Song Styles
New year, new car CDs? Not really, actually: I swapped them out mid-December. I’ve stopped sharing my other themes, seeing as my music choices wander between the obscure and the obvious, but I do like sharing my odd thought process fo…
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Pirate’s Luck~Chapter Twelve-The New Man
The slave’s face crumbled into disgust when the hatch of the ship sealed. “Great gods,” he muttered in Fedeng. “What?” said Arekan. “I thought that awful smell came from you,” he said. “It’s all over your clothes. But I see now it’s from the ship.” Arekan felt a blush creep up his neck. He…




