John sat at the kitchen table, his face resting in his hands. Brianna, the woman who he had barely known a short year ago, sat on the other side. It felt like they had been sealed inside of this room for an eternity. Read Full Article
Novel Bits
This is the first scene I ever wrote for the novel I’m currently working on, tentatively titled Children of the End. I didn’t use it for the beginning, but it’s too soon to say it might not end up somewhere else. Even so, the ideas in this scene inspired a hundred other ideas. It’s amazing that so much of what I have written now came from a scene not even 500 words long. Read Full Article
This was a writing exercise I did for a workshop. We were basically told to write a story with a specific setting and characters, but we each got to put our own spin on it. It was called an Iceberg exercise, because most of the story was hidden beneath the surface. Anyway, it’s more of a random scene than a full story, but I was pretty proud of how it turned out. Maybe I’ll do more with it someday. Read Full Article
Sam Writes 