Archives for May 2010

I posted a swords and sorcery short story to Smashwords recently called “A Moments Pause.” It’s basically the story of the four greatest heroes who have finally cornered the five greatest evil-doers in the world, and what they do in the face of sudden retirement.

The story’s only a buck, and you can find it here: LINK. Hope you like it.

Okay, I don’t go “Grammar Nazi” in general, because I believe people should be able to write whatever they want, and use whatever words fit the situation. However, I’ve seen this same issue come up in three different podcast fiction stories, from three different professional authors, and I gotta find closure on this.

I hate the word “instantaneously”. Let’s put aside the general writing advice that says, “Kill all the adverbs”. If you want to say that something suddenly happened, it seems like “suddenly” isn’t good enough anymore. “Instantly” is better than “suddenly” because it means something happened even faster. But “instantaneously” is even better than “instantly” because it’s even faster-er!!

This morning, Amazon posted Brand’s novella “Tumbler” at this link. I can’t tell you how amazingly cool this is.