Geralds Writing Blog

There's something different this week - it's a new piece, over on my Wordpress blog: Wordpress Blog here Thank you for reading.

I have another prologue to an as-yet unreleased novel, over tat my Wordpress blog: A new piece of writing, the prologue to my work-in-progress, a novel (working title Death in Print) is up over at my Wordpress blog :  CLICK HERE

A new piece of writing, the prologue to my work-in-progress, a novel (working title Death in Print) is up over at my Wordpress blog :  CLICK HERE for #SampleSunday

I've just realised that I haven't posted to this blog since last Sunday. Shame on me. I've got something a little different for you this week. The first thing I have is a very short story (680 words), written when I was sitting, overlooking the sea on a sunny weekend. It occurred to me how the sounds I could hear would paint a picture for someone who wasn't sighted. That's "Sights and Sounds" (which appeared in an online anthology a couple of years ago). I've also taken part in something I've not seen before - it's called 5 X 5 (Five By Five). The idea is to write a very short story (sometimes called Flash Fiction ), which comprises exactly five sentences, each of exactly five words. It's actually harder than you think. I hope you like this weeks #SampleSunday. If you do like it, there's more in my short story collections, available from Amazon for Kindle, and also on Smashwords for Sony and other readers, and shortly to be availa...

Sample Sunday is where you post examples of your work on a website or blog, and then use the hashtag #SampleSunday in a Tweet. And obviously, use any and all other media to spread the word. I love doing this. It excites me to be able to share some of my short story and flash fiction writing. Anyway, everything is over on my Wordpress blog: :: HERE :: I hope you enjoy reading it, and please bookmark my Wordpress blog. Thank you.

I'm feeling fairly righteous this evening. I'm sitting on over 3,000 words of edited first draft. This was a novella I wrote a couple of years ago which has been sitting on my hard disk looking for a market. It seems the Kindle could open up as a market for novellas, where the traditional pricing constraints of tree books don't apply. It's features my series character as police detective, investigating a murder on the British coast. As written, it came out at about 25,000 words. So far, I've stuck pretty much to the original pacing, but when it's rewritten, I'll look at how it reads to see if it needs more or less, or should stay the same.