Tag: writing

  • Goyle Country Update: dogs ain’t people

    Hey, here’s a new Goyle Country update (at 2489 words, no less). In which dogs aren’t people, even though some people think they think they are (and that wasn’t a typo). And a plan is put in motion!   <A temple indeed,> Hevak intoned, the deep rumble of his words translated once again by the…

  • Short Fiction: Geruth the Debt Collector

    Short Fiction: Geruth the Debt Collector

    “Come downstairs, Marie.” “I’m not coming down, Geruth. Go away.” “You can’t stay up there forever. I, on the other hand, can stay down here indefinitely.” “You’ll get bored and go away.” “Perhaps. Or maybe I’ll pretend to go away. Maybe I’ll just go a little way down the street and hide. You’ll come down…

  • Goyle Country Update: In which secret chambers!

    Hey. So. In (apparently) keeping with my putting things up late, here’s a Goyle Country update from last week. Well, and a little bit from tonight, because I could. It’s about 2k words, and weird things are happening because apparently the story has a mind of its own now. I’m… not really sure where this…

  • Short Fiction: Ironclads

    Short Fiction: Ironclads

    In the good old days war tended to stop in the winter. Nobody liked dying in the cold and snow, especially when it was the elements that were killing you and instead of the enemy. These days, when trains could carry troops and supplies alike, it was a year round proposition. It was a much slower,…

  • In Which The Villain Wins?

    Hey there! New update for this week ends on an appropriately ominous note. At 1477 words it brings the story total to 53844. Even as I was writing this update I was noting all the changes I wanted to make when I edit. This whole endgame needs tweaking, I think. Still, not bad. And it’s…

  • The Boss Fight

    I feel like this latest update is a scene from a computer game, or possibly a tabletop RPG. You’ve gotten to the big baddie, he’s monologued, now kill him and take his stuff! Clunky fight scene is clunky. Also, I really want to go back and change things. For example, Clayton needs to still have…

  • Breaking 50k Words

    With this update I break 50k words on the my fantasy western, which I’m provisionally calling “Goyle Country” because reasons. Here’s another 2,234 words for a total story count of 50314. Not much longer now, eh?   “Not that I’m eager to test that, mind.” Walsh snorted. “Thanks for the vote of confidence, Walter.” The…

  • Update for 2/13

    Here’s a longer than usual update – 2776 words, which brings the story total to 48080. In plot terms, you can just about see the finish line! He’d finished and was wiping the dribbles from his chin when the woman who’d introduced herself as Katherine crouched next to him. “So, Clayton,” she started. One hand…

  • Update – Remember Clayton?

    Hey guys, here’s another update for the fantasy western, the end of which we get back to good old Clayton. He hasn’t been having a very good time.   “Goyles?” Lonesome repeated. At first he was afraid, but that feeling was quickly joined by confusion. “Wait… they captured us? Took us alive?” It wasn’t what…