I am at the tail end of a One Story course on self-editing your short stories. I’ve taken the material presented and some items from the discussion threads and turned them into a kind of checklist of things to look for when editing your fictional works. You can find the like to a PDF of […]
Month: June 2016
Lost and Found and the Story Spine
Today I started work on the second draft of my first novel. The first task I’ve decided to undertake is to review and revise the plot structure. Recently I took a little course offered by the fine folks at One Story. Ann Napolitano did a five day course entitled “Lost and Found: A New Way […]
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Amped Emberley Vignette
On Friday my 8-year-old was doodling out of an Ed Emberley book and having a rollicking good time putting this together: I ran across it a couple of times over the weekend, and by Sunday noon, looking for something fun and easy to relax with, I could take it no longer. I had to do […]
A Tale of Two Rabbit Tales
I’m in the midst of reading The Green Ember by S. D. Smith to some of my kids. At the same time, I am reading Watership Down by Richard Adams to myself. I’ve not read Watership Down before, but you may have. The Green Ember is a very recent book. Both of these books are […]
The Terminal Velocity of Squirrels
Squirrels, it is said, can survive a fall from any height, but I bet no one has thrown a squirrel out of an airplane at 30,000 feet. Clowns, when unconscious, will not survive a fall from 30,000 feet: they’ll just mutate into a mess. Coincidentally, an unconscious squirrel would probably not survive a fall from […]
The Courtship of Little Red
Animal Livery — Part 2
Here’s the second half of a quick story I wrote to the prompt: “Start a story with: ‘The night max wore his wolf suit …’” Part 1 is here: http://wolf.ishly.me/2016/06/06/animal-livery-part-1/ Animal Livery – Part 2 90 minutes later they were driving back from the hospital. “And can you believe that doctor’s whistling?” Max hissed and […]
Animal Livery – Part 1
Here’s part 1 of a quick story I wrote to the prompt: “Start a story with: ‘The night max wore his wolf suit …’” Animal Livery – Part 1 The night Max wore his wolf suit he struggled to dial Scout Masters’ phone number three times in a panic because he couldn’t get the paws […]
The Last Tanuki
I’m writing a novel. It’s a furry novel. I only have one chapter left to write and the first draft will be done. If you have an account on FurAffinity: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/graowf/folder/106410/The-Last-Tanuki/