Stories

  • Callow Shine

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    The skin on the back of my knuckles was peeled back, cracked and shiny with wet and drying blood. Some of it was mine. Some of it had belonged to the man on the floor, looking up at me from behind a broken nose and the fading spark of a fight in his eyes. I…

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  • The Winds Out Uranus

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    Uranus is a special place, that’s what they told me anyway. Initial probes way back when showed promise, like if a population of the galaxy’s nerds could get in there just right they could make a real home

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  • World-Building Lessons from Tolkien for Sci-Fi Writers

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    In sci-fi, an author has to show not only cool applications of science in the future, or alternate history, or whatever branch of sci-fi the author is highlighting, the author needs to paint a picture of the evolution of culture. As the writer, you can look at Tolkien’s painstaking work…

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  • My Journey to Earning 20 Thousand a Month as a Writer

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    “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein So that’s my goal, plain and simple, live life as a writer that earns a nice twenty thousand dollar signs monthly. You could argue that money is a thing and therefore can’t be a…

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  • How to Use White Space for Emotional Effect in Your Stories

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    It’s writing advice day. Recently, I made a video in an over the shoulder-style way to help you use the white space of your paragraph structure to create emotional effect in the rhythm of a reader’s experience. Want to see what I mean? Check it out: You see, too many words on a single page,…

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