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The Friday Muse – The Oak Tree
I’ve been an author for many, many years now. I have my hands in two novel series, various novellas, and a slew of short stories. And while most of my stories take place in the same universe, there are a few that do not. But in each of these fictional universes, there is a tree. An oak tree. It wasn’t planned that way… The Oak Tree There’s an oak tree, somewhere out there at the intersection of multiple realities and various dimensions. It sits, unhindered by time. Unhindered by man. It sits on the lines of creation, soaking in God’s dust, breathing in God’s air. It is not supposed to…
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The Friday Muse – NaNoWriMo Excerpt #1
I’m knee-deep in NaNo this month, so I figured I would share a bit of my manuscript with you for this week’s Muse. Right now, my word count is at 11,221. I’m going for 100,000, but that’s not a cut-in-stone goal, as I have a million other projects I am currently in the middle of working on in addition to NaNo. For NaNo, I’m actually working on a slew of different short stories. This enables me to hop around if I’m having issues with my word count or if I’m stuck on a story. Today’s Muse piece is an excerpt from a story I have tentatively titled, Camille’s Castle, in…