Ok, so it’s been a bit longer than expected since my last post. Don’t worry everyone, I’m not dead. Just been a little busy. My fiancee was home earlier than expected on Thursday, and left again late yesterday. In the interest of a future happy marriage, and our personal greed, we spent the whole time [...]
07.26.10 | Underground Writers, Writing | Shawn Gray
It’s the end of the month. It’s also the deadline for Chizine’s 15th Short Story Contest. Almost 11 hours ago, I submitted “Thrown Away” to the contest after a whirlwind three days of extensive editing and revising. That editing and revising added over 500 words to the story and greatly expanded on setting and characters, [...]
06.30.10 | Published, Underground Writers, Writing | Shawn Gray
So I’ve done pretty much no writing this past week at all. I did critique Andy’s piece, but that’s all that I’ve done writing related. Instead, I’ve been doing more of one of the things that I truly love: watch horror movies. There’s something about a good, or bad horror/thriller movie that sucks me in. [...]
06.24.10 | Events, Underground Writers, Writing | Shawn Gray
Most of the past week has been spent packing up my apartment. Piece by piece I’ve been organizing things into boxes, tossing stuff in the recycling or garbage, or selling it off to the highest bidder to raise some funds to help pay for the move. It’s been nuts. Today my landlord was over for [...]
06.16.10 | Underground Writers, Writing | Shawn Gray
So as usual, my huge plans to write more frequently and to improve my storytelling ability were completely dashed by the reality of real life. For some crazy reason, that always seems to happen. Maybe I’m not diligent enough, or maybe the fates don’t like my short hair and glasses. I don’t know, but I’m [...]
05.28.10 | Events, Underground Writers, Writing | Shawn Gray
Here there is no vorpal sword to go snicker snack, because it shattered from a mighty whack. The jabberwock was never slain, and the bestial knave has come to reign. Ok, that was just kinda fun to write. Means nothing. Or maybe it means something. I don’t know, leave it to a philosopher. We’ve been [...]
05.12.10 | Underground Writers, Writing | Shawn Gray
Been a busy month getting everything ready for April. I managed a fair bit of writing on my own during March, but now is the time to look at Script Frenzy. My current script, “Attack! Attack! Attack!” has just crossed 27 pages. The official goal is 100 pages of scripts in a month. I’m nearing [...]
04.3.10 | Underground Writers, Ze Other Stuff | Shawn Gray
Day 231 I took off. And by took off, I mean I ran all over town on the last day of my bus pass. Even took a trip to chapters and copied down a few titles that I want to borrow for my new charge. Day 232 I did a quick edit of “Thrown Away” [...]
03.7.10 | Underground Writers, Ze Other Stuff | Shawn Gray
I have finished the editing run of Hedged In. Go me! I also wrote a short, 955 word, piece of flash fiction titled “Thrown Away”. I sent it to the group for critiquing, but I think I should have given it another run-through first. Oh well, just means more feedback I guess. Tomorrow, I start [...]
03.4.10 | Underground Writers, Ze Other Stuff | Shawn Gray
So I’m calling the day at an end and am currently sitting at page 161 / 204. This is going a lot slower than I anticipated. On the bright side, I should have this part all wrapped up by the end of the day tomorrow. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz [...]
03.2.10 | Underground Writers, Ze Other Stuff | Shawn Gray
I meant to have this up yesterday, but got distracted by something. As I mentioned previously, I was planning on g...
Dear Readers: A big event is looming on the horizon, one that promises to challenge writers world-wide. Ok, maybe not...
Today I worked on my novel, "The Fall of Order." I added 400 brand-new words to my writing, removed about 600 in editing...