New Yowler story up, Ohio Stray
As those of you hungry for more stories have noticed, Ohio Stray went up this morning, on schedule (yay, Django!). This was one of the very first Yowler stories, and it’s surely one of the better. The notes I collected had a gigaton of extra things– details on 4H in Ohio in 1904, how the [...]
Obviously, I can’t read a calendar
Today is Thursday, October 1st, which means the posting engine posted the first Yowler story today. For some reason, I was fixated on the idea that Friday was October 1st. Ah, well, it’s really nice to see that the story engine worked as advertised (although there was a bug in the display handler for the [...]
Taking catgirls seriously…
draconispax asked, “What is the Yowlerverse?”
The Yowler series is a collection of short stories set in “the real world” that I’ve been doodling with for a few years now, but haven’t really gotten all that serious about until recently. I’ve finished about 70,000 words or so (don’t worry, I won’t ask you read them all [...]
Knowing when to stop.
So, I’ve been spending this week writing a story, set in 1986, about a gay man in an isolated setting who through circumstances beyond his control is forced out of the closet. It was an exercise in tension, in revealing things slowly, and in trying to get inside the neurosis-inducing world of being gay, [...]
Truer words were never written
I’ve been reading Keith Johnstone’s brilliant little book, Impro: Improvisation and the Theater, which as you can probably guess is about acting. But it’s about much more: it’s about creativity, and teaching, and anthropology, and psychoanalysis, and writing dialogue, all in about 150 pages.
Somewhere in the middle of the book he drops this gem:
Writer’s block [...]