I know it’s way overdue but I can now finally announce that there is a title to this story: The Watchtower Chronicles.

I’ve changed the categories that I was using before into tags and from here out categories will be reserved for individual stories. Also, in an effort to make it easier to follow things, each post will also have a scene number as part of the title and yes, I’m going back and editing the titles of the parts already written to comply with this new standard.

I have to thank my wife for the title and for the idea of how to organize things. She’s doing some really good story writing of her own. Check out “Burgers In The Dumpster” and you’ll see that I’m not just being a biased husband. *grin*

Tags: the watchtower chronicles, categories, organization, site news, tags, story title

In the months since I first said that I was going to start writing short stories here I’ve managed to write precisely zip. All that is however, about to change in a big way. What will be following is the beginning of an ongoing story.

It’s going to be a serial type of thing with each post being very much like a single scene in an old style serial or soap opera. With that for an introduction, it’s time to introduce the first character.

Tags: serial, ongoing story, short stories, soap opera, site news

I’ve been thinking lately that something I’d like to do is improve my short story writing skill. What little I have has seen fairly little exercise over the years. Obviously the best way to improve something like that is by practice.

I’m not entirely sure what these stories will be about. I am sure that they’ll qualify as fantasies of one sort or another, which I believe most fiction could be called but I cannot say with any certainty that they’ll all be any kind of comfort.

One of the reasons to work on this is the fact that dialog has always been hard for me to write. The little bit that I have written has, with few exceptions, been the result of clawing or every word. Getting my characters to talk hasn’t always been easy. Getting them to sound like they’re not half brain damaged or cloned from some other fiction is another trick entirely.