Category Archives: Writing

Coffee Shop Writing - Week 2

I probably should have written this on Friday, but I was too busy composing my pre-Shutdown Day entry. Had I written and posted this on Saturday, I would have been in violation of Shutdown Day and the Internet police would have locked me away in a virtual prison.1 Sunday was…well, I’d hate to ruin a [...]

The Ultimate Pardon

“Run through it one more time for me, Tom,” the President said, squinting slightly against the sun. The sky was clear, not even the contrail of a passing jet detracting from the pale blue firmament. This isn’t right, he thought, frowning as he watched a lone bird—a hawk by the look of it—soar quietly overhead. [...]

Coffee Shop Writing: Week 1 Summary

I’ll let Mr. Miller summarize his own efforts; not because I don’t know what he wrote all week, but because I can’t bring myself to admit that he wrote more than I did.
Monday
I started a new short(?) story tentatively titled “The Long December” and discovered that immortality is simply a matter of who’s in charge. [...]

Coffee Shop Writing: Day 3

One of the tricky things about blogging for me is that I almost always compose blog entries in WordPress’ editor. This means that I have to have an Internet connection in order to write. Only one time in recent memory have I begun writing a blog entry offline: my love letter to giant crocodilians was [...]

Writing: PlotStorming.com

After learning about PlotStorming.com at Con on the Cob, I decided to give the creative writing community a shot and signed up for a free account.
PlotStorming is, at its heart, a Simple Machines Forum (much like the one installed here at KJToo.com) where users can talk about various aspects of creative writing, bounce ideas off [...]