Tag: Shade
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 8: Revision
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “The Tome” chapter from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The assignment from Class 5 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review your performance at the bottom of the assignment. Digging a Grave I’m not gonna…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 6: The Shadow of the Imposter
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Billy Badass Part 1” and “Billy Badass Part 2” chapters from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The writing assignment from Class 3 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review your performance at the bottom of…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 1: Syllabus
This course is going to be called Write Like A Gangster. I figured out through the course of my career so far that a lot of people will tell you so many hard, fast rules of what you should and shouldn’t do when you’re writing. I don’t believe in those. I’ve broken the rules too…
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The Sin Eater 18: Hand After Hand Part 2
Update. Writing this book has not been easy on me or my family. Two of the Lost Boys have come back. One of them I won’t tell you about. He carries the filth of Aunt Easy and others on him, and he is so disgusted by himself that he laid on the altar for over…
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The Kingdom 9: The Rise of Lunacy Part 1
Here we go again. Welcome to the blog blast of the section that I call The Kingdom from the book Reality of the Unreal Mind, Vol. 3: The Keep. The Kingdom is an explanation of the work itself. You can’t understand any writer unless you know their work. So Friday we began at 6 p.m. and I will release…
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The Kingdom 7: Eastgate
Here we go again. Welcome to the blog blast of the section that I call The Kingdom from the book Reality of the Unreal Mind, Vol. 3: The Keep. The Kingdom is an explanation of the work itself. You can’t understand any writer unless you know their work. So Friday we began at 6 p.m. and I will release…
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The Kingdom 6: Cogs and Springs
Here we go again. Welcome to the blog blast of the section that I call The Kingdom from the book Reality of the Unreal Mind, Vol. 3: The Keep. The Kingdom is an explanation of the work itself. You can’t understand any writer unless you know their work. So today we begin at 6 p.m. and I will release…
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The Shieldmaidens 10: Heart
And I bow as I step onto the dance floor, and the strings strain, and the bodies around us move. Bodies of abusers and saviors. Rose dances with Olsen, Destiny with Tiger. The music plays, we all twirl, and I take each of the next stories out onto the floor. The waltz is the most…
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In the Name of the Father 23: Shade
Naked and burning in the sun, Pain walks out into the desert and lets the sand burn his feet. He lets the rage burn his heart and wonders why he should be here. So many terrible things happened on God’s watch. How can he even start to think about working it all out? When the…