As I mentioned in my post on the 3 rd of March, I have a writing friend. We work on one exercise per week and turn it into flash fiction. I could be a set of words, a situation, an emotion, etc. It’s quite fun and challenging because the exercises involve themes that I might never have tackled otherwise. These exercises haven’t just been about prose, they are also a very useful creative boost. So much so that I think over the next while a good portion of the flash fiction t

It’s a complicated time for writing. I’ve been working on exercises, writing flash fiction, and have started a novelette / short story companion anthology for “ Blood Interrogator ”. But I also need to find time to write the final draft of “ Null City ” and pick up my historical novel again. What to do? These are not easy choices. When so many ideas are floating around, I find it difficult to focus on one piece of work. I’m not a fast enough writer to work on long works in p

I now have a writing friend thanks to the writing class I took in November! She’s a brilliant mind, ready to propose writing exercises in order to hone our skills. It’s interesting because she propels me to write about things that I would never have thought to write about. Or perhaps the exercises oblige me to tackle subjects that I don’t want to write about. In either case, her ideas will make for better writing. Her prose is very different from mine. I would describe it as