Celebrating Independent Authors
Indies Unlimited featured three short stories this week by three different and talented writers. Now is the time for you to choose your favorite.
The winner of course, will get a truckload of self-satisfaction and not much else really. All the same, why not make your voice heard? I guess in this case it would be your mouse.
To review, this week’s entrants are:
Homophones, by Shaun J. McLaughlin
Twenty, by Garrett Hise
Cycle of Abuse, by T.D. McKinnon
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Everyone knows that readers have subject preferences. Not everyone will like a story even if it is very well written. It is not literary failure if someone doesn’t like your story because they don’t like that kind of story. It is failure if a reader normally likes the kind of story you wrote, but doesn’t like yours. They don’t have a beef with the editing or the grammar or the genre or even the idea of the story—they just did not like what you wrote or the way you wrote it.
Where most writing fails, it does so because the original idea of the story the author wished to convey to the reader gets lost in translation.
Remember that writing is one form of communication. There are four parts to communication in writing: Continue reading “A Failure to Communicate”
Starting with a biblical quote attracts attention, and is suitable for a subject about what some people like to term ‘biblical proportions’. What does the term mean, exactly? Well, if you love the numbers game, the Bible is a book you might like. It’s hardly filled with empirical or scientific statistics, since they did not have the United Nations bean counting team in those days, to really crunch the numbers, but it can be entertaining. Like the ten plagues, the seven deadly sins, and did you know the number seven appears 42 times in the books of Daniel and Revelation?
If you really like numbers, a “creative” look at the world’s population is possible through a number of lenses. One is here, posted with a recommendation to read, and a warning: your GSOH is necessary, even when you peruse the colourful graphs. Continue reading “A voice crying in the wilderness”
