Words of Redemption

It’s time for the results!
On monday, I posted the photo for the first Write What You See challenge, with instructions to write a piece of flash- or micro-fiction1, post the story on your blogs and return here on Friday to throw them into the mix.
Here’s the photo again:

I know that you’ve all written wonderful stories [...]

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If we’re Twitter friends, you may have noticed–from early morning tweets–that I’m working on edits for a short story.
It’s not Until Durango, that one’s done… again.
This one is tentatively called “The Silent Funeral,” and it’s actually part of the novel I started working on last November.
So yes, I am finally working on my novel again.
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Last week, I introduced what I hope will be a regular spot of fun here at Words of Redemption: Write What You See - The Monthly Micro-Fiction Challenge.
Click on the link above to catch the details and the general idea if you missed it.
Or, I can give you a brief summary here:
Each month, for WWYS, [...]

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Next week, I am rolling out a monthly writing challenge. My hope is that it will be a way for writers and non-writers alike to flex their creative muscles once a month in a separate stream from their work–be it your day job or that novel, story or article in-progress that [...]

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I’m getting the Kindle-shakes now…
Books completed in weeks 10 and 11
“Neverwhere: A Novel” (Neil Gaiman) (Audiobook)
“The Shack” (William P. Young)
“Fatal Deduction” (Gayle Roper)
Books read or started in weeks 10 and 11
“The Stories of John Cheever” (John Cheever)
“Characters and Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing)” (Orson Scott Card)
“The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the [...]

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Every man’s memory is his private literature. - Aldous Huxley

This is part two of a series on memory and storytelling. For part 1, click here.
I was born in Medford, Oregon in 1978. When I was two months old, my parents moved to Bellevue, Washington, a small town minutes east of Seattle. [...]

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Episode two of the Words of Redemption podcast is live!
In this episode, I conclude my crime fiction story, Until Durango. This episode clocks in at 20 minutes, meaning I didn’t give you all near enough of the story last time around. Hopefully it was worth the wait.
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I’m participating in a book tour this month with Dee Stewart and Kathleen Popa for Gayle Roper’s book, Fatal Deduction.
In addition to the standard book tour blog post, Dee is planning to post a “Weekend Chatterbox” entry on her blog about one of the dominant themes in the book.
What’s more, the three of us will [...]

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Robin keeps on making up poetic styles, and I keep on writing poems for them. That’s right, it’s time again for Pensieve’s Poetic License, a monthly poetry carnival for the criminally insane.
Oh wait, that’s not this one. PPL is for the mostly sane1.
This month’s theme is Diamante, [...]

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For a while now, I’ve been contemplating starting a podcast where I can share stories, poems and excerpts from my novel. I’ve thought about sharing these things in printed form, but posting a story on one’s blog counts as “published” in many circles, so I’m taking a “better safe than sorry” approach and will likely [...]

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