Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Time is not on my side. The “free time” I bragged about a while back evaporated. So I apologize for being slow. I have started Chapter 2, but only have 300 words or so… not ready to publish yet. I may set a record for slowest writing ever. But it’s still [...]

The first deaths came on Sunday, during the night. Monday morning, five members of a family of seven were found on the south bank of Yoa, less than a hundred yards from the roof of the house they had lived in before. The house had collapsed from the side and had slid into a [...]

I hope no one has given up on the next installment of Deliverance of the Body. It’s coming. I need some free time to work on it, and I am truly grateful that I have some coming up soon. Installments coming asap. Thanks for hanging in there.

If I had written a few years earlier, and had tweaked my flood story-line just a tad, I could have “predicted” this (via Balloon Juice). I would have been a modern-day prophet!
As it stands, I may not be able to resist integrating it in some way.
And by the way – sorry about [...]

So… second installment is up. Anyone have any thoughts? Big question… if there were yet a next page to turn to, would you turn to it?
What looks or sounds amateurish? Is there anything in particular I did well? How was the snippet of dialogue?
Other concerns on my mind. Number one, writing [...]

I’m behind my deadline for the next installment. It is only half written… I came upon some snags I was not expecting in the construction of the next phase of the story. So, I apologize. I’m hoping to have it complete by this time tomorrow. In the meantime, I’m going to [...]

Did I mention that this writing stuff is hard? Is for me, anyway. I’m guessing that one of my biggest challenges is going to be in the dialogue department. It’s a deficiency of mine – conversation is not a strong point with me. I don’t do it well, and I don’t [...]

(Installment 1 is here.)
So, a few hundred words in… Don’t look for installment two for at least a week. That few hundred words was pretty tedious. Now, I’m welcoming feedback of any size or shape but mainly I’m hoping for points on style. One more thing – I am going to close comments on [...]

Deliverance of the Body Chapter 1, First pages, Draft 1
Text begins below… if reading from Facebook or an RSS feed, click below to continue reading at Tête-à-Tête-Tête. And welcome to this literary experiment. Feedback is welcomed, both positive and critical. I will provide more discussion in blog posts between installments. Just let this [...]

I fully expected that this fiction thing was going to be hard. I even expected that it would be harder than I expected. Turns out, it’s even harder than that. I have a page or two for chapter one almost ready to post, but I’m not entirely satisfied with it.
A lot of [...]