Sunday afternoon reading fun
You know, Sunday afternoons at work are probably a lot like a Friday afternoon for everyone else: not only is it my “Friday” of sorts, it also is quiet and no one is here. I just relax and work slowly in the newsroom, where I typically only have one or two stories for the day [...]
Cryin’ Shame – The meat between the bread
Writer’s Note: This part of Cryin’ Shame, draft two, is meant to lie between the beginning and end. The third draft of this story will be out in two weeks, so stay tuned as more comes out over the next couple of weeks. Obviously, this part of the story still needs some polish and shine, [...]
Chester Bloom – a character sketch, second draft
Long awaited and finally done, Chester’s character sketch that is much better than the last. Chester Bloom – A Character Sketch By Kevin Myrick He kept the stereo he had in the office tuned to one station and one station only: WKXZ 92.3 FM, home of Jazz, Blues and Gospel out of Chattanooga. It was [...]
Cryin’ Shame: Death and Taxes
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. -Benjamin Franklin To be honest, when I first sat down to rewrite the ending of the first draft, I started freezing up again. One night in particular, Tuesday to be exact, was one of those nights. I sat there, struggling with this thought in [...]
Cryin’ Shame: a look at beginnings
1 First God made heaven & earth 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw that the [...]
Cryin’ Shame, Draft 2 update
Hi folks. So I guess you were expecting a new draft today, right? Well, in the ongoing struggle to get things done, I have decided to postpone this week’s draft until Sunday, due to work crap that I’ve been working on this week getting in the way momentarily. I’ll be getting the new character sketch [...]
Cryin’ Shame: The first draft
Last week, we took a look at the early barebones effort I wrote of Cryin’ Shame, and also at two early character sketches that I wrote for both Chester, our main character, and Shirley, his girlfriend who dies at the end of the story. In this, the real first draft, we take a look today [...]
Shirley Coonts: a character sketch
Here’s another character sketch that I wrote while here at work, which still needs some work like the Chester Bloom sketch. During Thursday’s update of “Cryin’ Shame,” I plan on talking about how I use the character sketches that I write (which in themselves are to me miniature stories) to bring out certain elements of [...]
Chester Bloom: a character sketch
As part of the writing series I’m doing for the site on the new story I’m doing called “Cryin’ Shame,” I’m taking these bland and faceless characters I’ve made up and am making character sketches of them. I’ll be posting parts of the story that I’m working on and other similiar things like that here [...]
Cryin’ Shame
For the past two years or so, I’ve been having trouble getting any writing done. I wouldn’t quite call it a block, but it’s surely something that has been hanging over me since I finished the first draft of Stuck in the Elevator. When I tried to sit down and edit Stuck in the Elevator, [...]
Powered by Laughing Squid
