Illustration – Copyright Icy Sedgwick I’m a big fan of Writer’s Digest, and I got an email yesterday summing up their latest posts. This one in particular caught my eye – a 12 day plan of simple writing exercises! A kind of “Twelve Days of Christmas” for writers, if you will. I’ll post them in […]
Photo Prompt 62
New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! If you […]
Friday Flash – Opinion Piece
In recent years, the streets of our fair city have been a battleground in the ongoing fight between Captain Astounding and Icy Von Doom. Last week we ran a feature detailing a Day in the Life of a Henchman after Von Doom granted us access to one of her newest employees, hired following a recent […]
[Book Review] The Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles
If you see a book on Amazon with 50 5* reviews, you’re expecting a good read. Thankfully, Edward A Grainger knows how to deliver. The first volume of the Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles is described as “western noir”, and features seven short stories about two deputy U.S. Marshals working in 1880s Wyoming […]
End of NaNoWriMo
Hooray, it’s now the 30th November, and the official last day of NaNoWriMo. How many words did you write? Did you even compete? If you didn’t, so what? It’s not compulsory and for many writers, EVERY month is NaNoWriMo. If you did take part, then huzzah! You’ve now entered a club full of people who […]
Photo Prompt 61
New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! If you […]
