First post in three years, just because I can. Nice to see that Gears is still there looking all glum. I half-thought it would be like the lamented Prime's Watercloset, that only looks like it still works until you try to click anything.

Scottwave, considering a fresh start except for that whole laziness thing...

The title of this post is practically longer than the story itself. Anyway, here is "Light Chop". All 191 words of it.

I'm warning you, it's bad.

After a visit to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, it is hard not to come away with one (or two... I also have Snape's, just don't tell him that). It's made of "elder" and has a creepy skull attached to it. It doesn't seem to make work go faster or summon the remote for me, which is a shame. I'm all about taking shortcuts in life ( Read more... )

So the town I'm living in* has this annual writing contest that for three years running I have literally missed by a week. Not that I really any anything to submit. You'd think that a two thousand word limit would be easy, but not so much. I started posting stuff to Ficly.com just to prove that I could write (really) short stories ( Read more... )

I have not posted in a year and a half. I blame the alien abduction. Good times, at least that is what implant is telling me to type ( Read more... )

I suppose it’s more important to have a good, well-written story, but I’m a sucker for a good title. I literally have pages of unused, and likely never-to-be-used, titles jotted down in notebooks and stored on my computer. Roughly speaking and including stories and fanfics I’ve already completed, that list is currently around 900 titles. So maybe ( Read more... )

For me, at least, it's all about momentum. If I'm writing at least a little bit over a given stretch of time, I'll keep writing. If I'm not, well then, I'm not ( Read more... )

There are spoilers for two fairly new books in this post. Beware or be square, as Blaster would (unfortunately) say ( Read more... )

Good God Almighty, I almost forgot I had this thing. I've got a great excuse for doing so, but who wants to hear all that crap (it involves lay offs, new jobs, a whole lot of writing, and of course general laziness ( Read more... )