Misogyny, Feminism and the Power of Language
Elgin’s tale of misogyny, language and the search for empowerment by this dystopian society of Native Tongue starts with this: ARTICLE XXIV Section 1. The nineteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall...
#FlashFiction Challenge: Departure-The Dragon’s Drama
Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenge calls for the use of a dragon in the story I have a couple flash stories with dragons, but here is a very short one. Departure-The Dragon’s Drama With a powerful down sweep of his wings Langir rose up and off the cliff. He...
The #Writing Craft: #Write Like A Best Selling #Author
In which I examine Pro-Writing Aid recommendations against the efforts of published best-sellers. In the previous three articles in this series we’ve looked at the findings of a group of researchers at Stony Brook University that linked lexical density to a book’s success, at lexical density compared to writing...
#CoverReveal: Tour Of Duty~Book 3 Arekan’s War
I took the morning to finish up the covers for the Arekan’s War books. Below is the one for book three which is written but needs one more good going over before I release it. But here is the blurb. Tour of Duty Arekan’s first days in the Windshadow...
#CoverReveal: No Free Lunch Book 2 Arekan’s War
Here is the new official cover for the second part of Arekan’s War. It’s meant to reflect Arekan standing in the audience hall of the Windshadow Complex though it’s not quite the picture I see in MY head. But what are you going to do? How do you get...
#CoverReveal: No Free Lunch Book 2 Arekan’s War
Here is the new official cover for the second part of Arekan’s War. It’s meant to reflect Arekan standing in the audience hall of the Windshadow Complex though it’s not quite the picture I see in MY head. But what are you going to do? How do you get...
#BookPromotion: A #booktrailer and Story Cartel
First off you may wonder why I’m putting hashtags in my titles. Courtesy of WordPress and with the correct settings my post gets auto published on Twitter and Facebook. The hashtags don’t count so much on Facebook, but on Twitter it sends the posts to lovely pages with similar...
The Craft of Writing: 200 Most Common Words As Parts of Speech
(Beth Turnage Blog) It’s been nigh many years since the nuns at my Catholic grammar school made me memorize parts of speech at the age of seven and had me parse sentences at the tender age of ten. The funny thing is that my children never had to struggle...
The Craft of Writing: 200 Most Common Words As Parts of Speech
Two hundred words are said to comprise eighty percent of all English sentences. Here is the list broken down into parts of speech. Why? Because you should know what weapons you are hurling at an unsuspecting public. It’s been nigh many years when the nuns at my Catholic grammar...
Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge: The Incubus’ Tale
Chuck Wendig gave us ten titles, one thousand words and one week to post on his latest flash fiction challenge. Here’s mine: The Incubus’ Tale “Still, if some are occasionally begotten from demons, it is not from the seed of such demons, nor from their assumed bodies, but from...