Tag: creative writing


  • “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” ~ Ecclesiastes 1:9 Greetings from the edge, It has been argued, by storytellers far more prolific and qualified than I, that there are really only a handful of stories humans keep telling over and…

  • Greetings from the edge, Since I keep referring to my office as “The Broom Cupboard,” I thought I should finally show you the tiny creative engine room itself. This is where Rambles & Whimsy happens: books, screens, dice, plants, dragons, more tea than is reasonable, and a chair that has… seen things. It is not…

  • Greetings from the edge, I have been keeping busy in flesh space.  Various bits and pieces have conspired to keep me away from my keyboard; however, I’m back now, and I have a plan. The fact that the entire plan is just ‘do more work’ is neither here nor there. As well as various broken…

  • Greetings from the edge, Every writer eventually gets asked the same question. Not the one about when you’re going to pay the bill, sir, but the other one: where do your ideas come from? There’s a well-worn trope about “the muse.” Stephen King famously describes his as a gruff, middle-aged man who smokes, drinks bourbon,…

  • I’ve taken a short hiatus from writing proper for the last ten days or so, but I’m pleased to report that the wheels are turning again, and I knocked out a treatment and plot outline for my new short story, Rare, last night. It’s about a chef at a vegetarian restaurant who gets bitten during…

  • Greetings from the edge. Been digging through some old short fiction that has been mouldering in my lowest, darkest desk drawer, and, as it turns out, there is a very good reason I never came back to them.  I mean, I stand by the central ideas for some of them, but out of a dozen,…

  • Greetings from the edge, Funny thing, but as soon as you tell someone you’re a writer, they ask for advice on how to write. It doesn’t matter if you’re any good or not. It doesn’t matter if you’re published. Once you tell anyone who likes books that you write, after the standard “What do you…