Writings

Chewy bits

Thoughts on writing from an off-the-cuff creative writing workshop and wide spots on some other side-roads. You might find these useful if you are trying to become more aware of the mechanics of writing.

Roadkill Camp Tales~ a varied archive, including:

NEW - EC Names - a nearly complete list of characters from CotCB to SoS. Fan-fickers delight! Newly updated and pending further improvements...

Dead Sentences ~ a Nick Wortschatz mystery
Your roving critic throws some light on what makes writers do what they do...or at any rate, on what they do.

My careless but amusing fanfics, in which Jean Auel's perfect blonds meet some oddities out of my mind and then some in short parodies and longer novels.

There are also a couple of non-parody short EC fics that I wrote as exercises when I got too uptight about my ongoing "serious" work.

Non-EC fic: In Borrowed Time, the descendants of Mary Norton's Borrowers enter the age of technology in an epic tale of adventure. The world's smallest hacker travels thousands of miles in search of true love.

Murder, mirth, and magic in the Ice Age

--A blurb for A Drum Is Empty, a finished (lol) novel.

Poetry and song lyrics