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Seeking Plots
… to bury the dead.
Erm… uh… no.
Since I have made the incredible goal to get 10 short stories publishing in 2008, I figure I better get cracking on writing some. I have submitted two already, though I can’t expect them to be accepted. However, that is two which I do not have to [...]
Fiction Writing: How to Include Back-Story Without an Info Dump
11. May 2008
Who wants to read a story that starts with the birth of the main character and follows them through their entire life? This method of fiction writing is hardly ever successful. Why? Because readers will not care about everything that happened to the character when he was two, three, four, and more. They want to [...]
Continue reading...Spelunking
1. February 2008
Writing is a bit like spelunking. And also a bit like paleontology, or perhaps grave-robbing.
Ideas are bones, the writer fleshes them out, and hopefully the Frankenstein-spark flashes through the flesh and makes the story come alive.
I was overcome with melancholy last night… and also a healthy surge of amazed optimism… when I uncovered yet [...]
The Muse Awakens
11. June 2007
I woke up this morning with the image of a middle-aged woman lounging naked in a large vat of blood.
The muse at work again.
Within fifteen minutes, I jotted down a micro-fiction piece (about 200 words) about her vampire husband coming home and wishing, just for once, that they could make love on a bed between [...]
Elements of Time
Twin Trinity Media
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"Elements of Time" short story anthology is available now. It features winning stories from the Accentuate Services contests plus themed poetry. Two of M. Lori Motley's short stories, "Inescapable" and "No Time Like Now," are included.
"Elements of Soul" short story anthology is available now. It features fifteen winning stories from the Accentuate Services contests plus themed poetry. Two of M. Lori Motley's short stories, "Summer Heat" and "Flood of Tears," are included.
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15. July 2008
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