I’ve not posted in quit some time, but I’m sure my fan base of ten (Mom, Dad and who ever else happens to stumble upon my blog) weren’t too worried.
I’m working an IT contract at a local Natural Gas company in Downtown Denver and have had zero time to really focus on posting anything on my blog. Yeah, I know, what, does it take like 10 minutes to bang something out? Yeah, but really I’ve just not felt like it, so there.
Once I got settled into the commute things changed. Hey it was a major switch from two flights of stairs, stop in the kitchen, grab a cup of coffee, head to basement office – to now, catching RTD Express to downtown. Major lifestyle change. So, my typical day just to focus on work is around 12 hours leaving little time for family and writing.
Due to my limited time, I started reading a lot of short stories and decided to put my own “spin” and/or “twist” on a set of short stories myself. I banged out a few in the 6,000 word range and showed them to Jodi. With a little coaxing, she finally read them for critique and I think may have been surprised that I’m not that bad.
Stories with a twist is my focus. I’ve really enjoyed reading several books of short stories by Jeffrey Deaver, Twisted: The Collected Short Stories of Jeffery Deaver and More Twisted: Collected Stories. I’ve also been reading a compilation of multiple authors short stories called Thriller: Stories to keep you up all night and I plan to read Thriller2: Stories you just can’t put down.
With renewed focus, I’ve started a regimin of writing a new story a week for the past three weeks. So far, I’m keeping up with the pace and hope to have enough short stories to start submitting to various magazines and short story sites.
I hope to post excerpts soon. If interested in reading a few of my samples, please shoot me an email. Google-Mail works best.
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April 10, 2012 at 9:33 am
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