Okay, so it’s almost a Teaser Wednesday! Nevertheless, it’s after 5:00pm and my corporate hat is firmly OFF. So before I head home for the day, I wanted to get this post out. Habits, both good and bad, are formed one act at a time, right? I’ll try to make Teaser Tuesday a regular habit. If not a weekly one, at least monthly for a start.

This is the prologue from my WIP ‘Raven Academy’, book 1 in the chronicles of The Citadel of Kidrodell. It’s not much of a teaser, but its a start. . . . Continue Reading

Another creative writing experiment!

Around or so a year ago I wrote a short story humbly entitled ‘Life’.  It was based on the germ of an idea which I expanded into an 800 word flash fiction piece for a writing contest.  I came across the story last week in my OneNote archives and found with time and distance I wasn’t happy with it after all.  (I’m not sure if that’s part of the process of perspective or if it’s a symptom of my inner critic.)  I still found myself drawn to the theme and so I wasn’t content to simply leave it in its newly recognized, inglorious form and wanted to resurrect it (pun intended).  However, rather than simply rewriting it, I decided to reincarnate it (yes, another pun) in a different form – a poem. . . . Continue Reading