Posting my work

I’ve let this blog languish; and I’ve become reticent to post my writing here. The reasons are twofold:
I had intended to publish things as I write them, to publish raw first drafts. However, I make a point of not reading back over anything I write while writing a story. I fear that [...]

The task of the writer

Recently whilst walking home I thought to myself that my reserved observer style personality is one of my great strengths as a writer; it is one of my assets. For too long have I shamed myself over this, for too long have I wished I could be more sociable. But last night I [...]

Recursion

Last night I finished Gardner’s The Art of Fiction.  The following passage, from the last chapter on plot, set my creative intellect aflame:
I have said that a writer may also plot a piece of fiction by working his way forward from an initial situation. Say he gets the slightly lunatic idea of a young [...]

Boodaloo the Tooth-Washer 1 draft 1

The first thousand words (plus 154) of the main story I’m working on. It is about an outcast peasant who invents dentistry.