Tales from the Raven

True to its namesake, my flash piece Flight of Icarus has gone down once again.  This time the rejection comes from Ideomancer. Ah, well.  It was always a long shot.

10 - Throw a big bash the night before. 9 - Go on an all-chocolate diet 48 hours before the test. 8 - Only take exams when the moon is full. 7 - Buy a lottery ticket and rub it all over the text book. 6 - Spend a week collecting discarded pencils and getting them all sharpened. 5 - Use your text book for [...]

Our five-yeal old has been pining for snow this winter, as she hasn’t seen any since she was two.  Today as I opened the big freezer we keep in the garage she noticed the frost coating the wall and asked if she could have some of this ‘snow’. She touched various bits, and got a [...]

I’m back.  After a great Christmas (though hectic) and a germ-ridden New Years (though quiet) I’ve officially taken myself off the absentee list. Time to pounce on the opportunities of the newly-hatched year before they grow into smoking dragons and tearing wyverns that shred me at the first sign of weakness.  The only way to [...]

1 – Have a story accepted and paid for by a pro magazine within the Spec. Fic genre. 2 - Spend at least one hour writing each morning before taking the kids to school. 3 – Get a minimum of ten hours writing in every single week. 5 – Learn how to use my apostrophe so it doesn’t require an [...]