fiction

  • Real Life can Inspire New Ideas

    How art imitates—or inspires—your next big story Over the last few weeks, I’ve explored how writers get ideas for their stories. I tackled why that’s such a daunting question for some writers. Then, we explored various ways writers (or any kind of storyteller) can harvest new ideas. I even provided…

  • Where Do Writers Get Ideas?

    Part 3: Crafting a Process for Harvesting Ideas The dreaded question. Where do writers get their ideas? I’ve been exploring this the past few weeks. I believe that writers don’t like to answer this question because—for a busy, accomplished writer—getting ideas is the easy part. Their creative subconscious is always…

  • Where Do Writers Get Ideas?

    Part 2: The Things that Inspire you to Write For some reason, writers don’t like to talk about where they get their ideas. And to the outside observer, it seems like writers magically get their ideas from the thin air. In this series of posts, I hope to break down…

  • New Story: “Muerte Azul”

    I’ve been hard at work for the last few years writing stories.  It’s part of the reason why comics have been so slow in coming.  Sorry, but when the spirit takes you, you just gotta obey. In the coming days and weeks, I’ll be posting some of these fresh batches…

  • “The Infection Begins” a new story

    Took a while, but here is a new short story. Continuing from my infection/survival serial. Not quite zombies, something much worse. The rest of my stuff can be found at somefiction.tumblr.com THE INFECTION BEGINS He stumbled through the disaster that was once a lab room.  In the little light that…

  • A little bit of Jonas Stone, part 1

    Here’s a new short story staring the sci-fi gunslinger, Jonas Stone.  I truly wish I didn’t have to make these longer stories, mulit-part, but such is my schedule.  Anyways, enjoy.  For more Jonas Stone, check out my earlier post.  Check out my other fiction, at somefiction.tumblr.com