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Fiction Main Page |
 riting
is the reason this site exists, and though initially there is a lot more
non-fiction and humor and daily blogging to be seen than fiction, that
will change.
This
page lists the current short stories and longer works on this site, with
a link to the main page of each. All of my stories posted here
take up multiple pages, usually at least two for the story, due to
length, and there are also main pages for each story, and a discussion
page as well.
Most of the story links here aim at the main page for that story, and on that page you'll find links to the actual story pages, as well as the notes and discussion page. More recent additions forego the story main page, and just aim for the story's first page, with the notes below it, since I figured there was a bit much pointless clicking required for navigation with the original layout concept. Also see My Writing Philosophy, a page that more or less does what it says, despite being a couple of years out of date.
Original Fiction All but the Quickies have an intro page with more info about the story, and spoiler-free ratings. All stories have links to a discussion page with post mortem of the tale, and reader feedback. My fantasy short stories often have elements of horror, and the horror ones often have some fantasy. The line is a bit blurry, so classification goes more by setting than events.
• Diablo-Inspired Short
Stories
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A Paladin's Lesson -- Diablo,
Halloween 1998
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D2 Novel Excerpt --
October 24, 2002
• Horror Short Stories
• Fantasy Short Stories • Quickies • Novels
General Writing Essay
Stuff
Updates Diary-style entries on old stories being added, or new ones as they are written and inserted. Most recent entries on top. Many more such entries are filtered into the blogs and not pasted here.
September 22, 2005: Added/created the Unoriginal Fiction page, which is a long intro with a couple of blog entries. As always with my new articles pages, I want to go back through about 3 years of blogs and retroactively add a ton of stuff to this new page. That would require a lot of reading and time though, especially since the content of this new page wouldn't allow me to simply search for any easily-located terms. I may add to it in the future though, if I remember it's here. As for other additions to this section, there haven't been any for quite a while. I'm doing a lot of writing, but it's all on the Fantasy Novel, and none of that's going on the Internet, since I'd like to make some money, someday. The same greed-based reasoning has kept me from updating any more of my old short stories either, since while I initially thought I'd put them all online, Malaya and others have pointed out that they might have publication value, and that there's no point in giving them away for free if I could someday publish them in a short story collection. The other problem is that none of them are tolerable (to me) in their current form. I'd have to edit or completely rewrite all of them, and I'm not spending time on that with the novel to write, and if I did I wouldn't give them away for free anyway. Ideally the best 20 or so would go into a book at some point, while the rest went online for free, with a disclaimer that they were the lamer half and that the good half was in the paperback. Then again, why would I want to put my self-proclaimed crappy stuff online, to scare away the fans? Bleh.
October 27, 2004: In preparation for writing some sort of D2 Halloween story this year, I read over the last few in the humorous series that I am not going to resurrect, at least not for this holiday. In the process I was surprised to see that I had never added reader email feedback to the last two stories, Halloween and Thanksgiving 2003. I still had most of those old emails, and though the forums posts from the time are long gone, I've now added in the reader feedback to those two stories.
November 27, 2003: I've been very busy writing of late, though there's little evidence of that here. Work on the fantasy novel that began life as D2 fan fiction is going well, and I'm many tens of thousands of words into the tale. As detailed in numerous daily blogs, I've abandoned the D2 aspects of it and rewritten Chapter One and am going forward with it as an original fantasy novel, one I intend to get published. I'm not posting any more of it online, aside from potentially some short excerpts, since I want to preserve it's commercial potential. I've also been busy formatting and updating my large archive of old (college days) short stories, most of which are horror tales. I've converted over a good two dozen of them by now, but they're not online either, since my idea (original concept by Malaya) is to collect the best 300 or 400 pages of them and self-publish that and sell it through this site, basically as a way to reward site donors. I'm not intending it as a commercial operation, just a way to get the best of my old stories into print and to give site readers and fans of my writing something to purchase, if they are so inclined. The price I sell it for will depend primarily on what it costs me to get printed, and I'm not doing this to make money, just to cover costs. I will add several new versions of old short stories to this site around the time that I'm preparing the paperback short story collection, as a preview of the material and to give people who aren't going to or can't afford to buy the book some new fiction content.
March 19, 2003: I neglect these update entries terribly. I have added all of the D2 stories I've written (to date) on the D2 site, and a few other short tidbits as well. Miss Pretty Lies evaluation is ongoing, and it might be posted here, eventually, but for now I'm thinking about trying to fix it up to a publishable state for you know, money. And stuff. The Diablo 2 novel is halted for now, maybe forever, since it seems a waste to spend the time on that for a non-commercial end. When I could relatively easily redo parts of it and change some names and have an original fantasy tale, rather than very indirect Diablo fan fiction. Which I may or may not do, still considering it. There has been a lot of discussion of it and MPL in the daily updates the last few days. Start at March 17, 2003 and go from there, if you are interested and missed it at the time.
October 21, 2002: At last getting around to archiving some of the shorts I've written over the last 6 or 8 months in the daily updates. Added For the Oracle today, and should add the 3 or 4 others I've done tomorrow.
March 4, 2002: Well, big change. Read three of my old completed stories, and they were really good. One (Here Thar Be Sarpents) had four or five really great moments, little bits of writing that got a "fuck yeah!" from me now. All were 1992ish, so not read any of them in any form in 9 or 10 years. They didn't feel like the work of a stranger, but they are in a way, since I can't imagine writing anything like them now. I was in college then, and spending a lot of time with other people, lots of women in real life, and also reading other stories every week, and having my work read and discussed as well. So I was in a very different place in life then, compared to my relatively hermitism now. These old stories are much more artsy and clever than what I tend to do now. One odd thing was how bad the rough stuff I'd written back then was, as described in the previous update to this page, and how polished the final stories were. It would seem that there was a huge difference between my rough drafts and final work then; like I just put the words down as quickly as possible first time, and then really improved it on rewrites. That's more or less how it's supposed to work in writing, but in my stuff now I've gotten phenomenally better at rough draft quality, where when I first write something it's nearly final quality. The problem is that my rewriting skills seem to have gone to nothing, so in proofing I hardly improve anything. Obviously I used to be able to proof and add tons of good stuff, vastly improving the story. Wonder if I still could if I really tried; putting in clever similes and metaphors and such all over the place. Or was it just that the old rough drafts needed so much work I couldn't help but improve them a ton? Or did I really get better fast? Most of the rough stuff was from like 1990 or 1991, while the three finished ones I can remember turning into my creative writing classes in 1992-1993. The only bad thing is that I'm not sure I could write stories of the type, and the quality, of these old ones now. I'd like to think I'm a far better writer than I was then, despite not doing that much creative/fiction writing over the last 5 years, but I might be deluding myself. =(
March 2: I've read most of my old partial stories. Fragments, shards, uncompleted stuff. And it's depressing. Most are pretty bad. Not well-written, they feel very rushed, and lots of violence for the sake of violence or sex for the same of fuck. I remembered the stories vaguely either from the names or once I started reading them they'd come back to me, most of the time. They are all from 1991-1993 area, with probably some older, but undated. So I was late teens-early twenties at the time. A few had some decent stuff, but I can't see posting any of them here; they weren't complete enough or good enough in their fragmentary form. I'm sure my finished stories were much better, at least I remember them being much better, so I'll have to check some of those out next.
Formatting
I'm using the typical Internet formatting in these stories, rather than
the sort of single-space, indented paragraphs, full justified test that
you see in books, and that I'm using for this paragraph. Normally web formatting is to have lines single-spaced,
paragraphs not indented, and a double space/hard return
between paragraphs, and is usually left justified. |
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