Words of Redemption

It’s time to share some stories for July’s Write What You See, the monthly micro-fiction challenge.
Here’s the teaser.
So did you compose a 200 word masterwork?
Did you write a six-word story to describe what you saw in this picture?

Well, my mom did, and she rocked it! In fact, leave her a comment there or here.
Word on [...]

Wow, I didn’t realize that it’s been a month since the last Write What You See challenge.
But here we are, nearly into August, and it’s time for another round of image-triggered storytelling.
Last month, I was pleased to get a few takers. The submitted stories were all unique, creative and funny.
This month, I hope you’ll consider [...]

“The world’s greatest lie: At a certain point in our lives we lose control of what’s happening to us and our lives become controlled by fate.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
On November 1st, 2007, I began two journeys.
One to write a novel, another to become a writer.
Today, one of those journeys is being laid to [...]

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 [...]

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.
About [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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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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, [...]

This weekend, Sarah and I traveled to Seattle for the wedding of a college friend and former roommate of mine. The groom–a standup guy who was in our wedding–honored all of his groomsmen greatly by asking us to be a part of his wonderful wedding and by putting the whole crowd of us up in [...]