This is the second short story that I wrote for my creative writing class this semester. I had a lot of fun writing a heist story featuring an ambitious chemistry student, a crazy cat lady, and a Chad, and I hope you enjoy reading it! My car breaks down twenty minutes before I’m supposed to … Continue reading Eat or Be Eaten
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A Tiny Glass Bottle
This is a story I wrote for my creative writing class this semester. It also serves as backstory for one of my current projects--it takes place between the first and second books of the fantasy series. Tiernan's relationship with food in this story is obviously fictionalized in a lot of ways, but aspects of it … Continue reading A Tiny Glass Bottle
Character Analysis in Children’s Media – Part One
A few years ago, I attended a reception with the president and other faculty members of my university. One of these distinguished members asked the group of students what the best book we'd read recently was. Other students predictably mentioned classics or books that could be considered literary fiction, and I considered doing the same myself. … Continue reading Character Analysis in Children’s Media – Part One
Music and Writing
Something I've seen many authors talk about is having a writing playlist. This is something that I swear by--so much so that I have over twenty Spotify playlists just for different books I've worked on. I've even plotted a few books through music. This involved picking songs that seemed relevant to the mood and creating … Continue reading Music and Writing
Chapter Eight: Charlie
Catch up on the rest of the Charlie and Declan Cowriting Project here! Charlie sat on the edge of Declan’s bed while he opened his closet and began sorting through disguises. She fiddled with the clasp of her purse a little, resisting the urge to open it and pull out the little card she’d found … Continue reading Chapter Eight: Charlie
Chapter Seven: Declan
To catch up on the rest of the Charlie and Declan Cowriting Project, find the other chapters here.Fun fact about this chapter: the Sherlock Holmes references are nods to my solo writing project Detectives and Debutantes, a Sherlock Holmes retelling which features a fake psychic by the name of Niko Devon as a supporting character. … Continue reading Chapter Seven: Declan
Chapter Six: Charlie
Check out the rest of the Charlie and Declan Cowriting Project here! Written with Harriet Stuart. “Care to dance?” Charlie held her hand out to the half-drunk man sitting alone in the club, offering him her most flirtatious smile. He took her hand and followed her out to the dance floor. He wasn’t Declan. He … Continue reading Chapter Six: Charlie
Chapter Five: Declan
So this chapter of Charlie and Declan requires a touch of backstory. This book is technically part of the second generation of Falker books--Gen 1 is comprised of Harriet Stuart's solo book project, following Aster Grey and Erik Falker. These take place two hundred years in the future, after an AI designated as Omnometry has … Continue reading Chapter Five: Declan
Chapter Four: Charlie
Chapter Four of the Charlie and Declan Cowriting Project, written with Harriet Stuart. Charlie sat down next to Declan on his couch while the policeman took a seat in a chair opposite them after clearing off a stack of Declan's photographs and newspapers off of the chair and onto the ground with unnecessary roughness. Beside … Continue reading Chapter Four: Charlie
“A Change in the Winds”
This was a random writing exercise in which I blindly picked three words from the dictionary--exact, meadow, and verse--and wrote a short story from it. It's a little bit odd, but I hope you enjoy it! The world was changing. I knew it, my friends and family knew it, and the Council knew it. … Continue reading “A Change in the Winds”