I can die happy now…

…because my little book has gone up on Amazon.com. If you search in books under “David Blackstone Flash”  it’s the only thing that comes up. You can search inside, look at the first few pages, a random page, or at the front or back cover. I’ve been waiting for that to happen, but I sort [...]

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First the ‘verse and then the refrain.

I’m a fan of creating universes (as evidenced by the “Forsythe universe” in which some of my SF stories take place as well as the zombie apocalypse universe in which all of my zombie stories take place.) So I’ve decided to create a Fantasy setting as well. I’ve given it it’s own page. There’s also [...]

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Writing into the wind

So I’d been slacking off since the first of the year at the whole writing blog thing, getting 2-6 drabbles up in a week. This is in addition to around 5 a week for NameYourTale.com. But this past week, I made a resolution to write at least 2 a day for the whole week, my [...]

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What’s a drabble?

So I keep getting asked this question by people who see the notifications on Facebook from NetworkedBlogs about new posts to my fiction blog over at Blogspot. “What are those drabble things I’m always seeing links to?” Now what I’m usually thinking is: click through and find out, dorp de dorp. What I usually actually [...]

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Goings on

Well, it’s been a while. I’m getting geared up to play the trombone book at Olney Theater’s production of “Camelot”, with my good friend Chris as musical director. Always fun, and I have a couple other friends (including one from way back in my MC days, Meredith the harpster) in the pit. So that’s basically [...]

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First Person

My goal for the next week is not to write in it. At all. I’ve been writing in it too much, in the drabbles. I think because it’s easier to make it personal. So: ten drabbles this coming week, all in third person omniscient. Watching "AI" again… this time from near the beginning. I’ve seen the end [...]

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Here’s my plan

I need to bring back Forsythe. Forsythe is the man. Forsythe is an original SF character of mine. He’s at the center of the ’verse that includes the Polixaci… He’s a UN diplomat in the ‘alien section’ who ends up solving crimes and fixing problems. I’ve used the setting in a couple of the SF Drabbles over at [...]

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Creative, in an odd direction.

Well, here I am surrounded by all this equipment and software designed to help me write music, and I have 45 minutes of my 3rd CD done already, and I haven’t the slightest urge to make any music. I don’t know why.  The last piece of music I did was Languish, which went up on [...]

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The little story that didn’t win

A few weeks ago I wrote a story for a challenge contest at Coolstuff4writers.com: A 500-word story that contains only dialog. I thought it was an interesting challenge, so I did it. Well, I didn’t win, *sob*. But I’ve posted the story over on the writing blog so go read it. Feel free to comment. [...]

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The past couple weeks

So, I haven’t blogged in a couple weeks: didn’t really feel like it. Don’t really feel like it now, but, here goes. ————- Hey, Mr. black Mini Cooper in front of me today in Bethesda! Here’s a little tip from your friends at Mr. Dave’s Driving School… Guess what? When that little light turns green, [...]

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