by William C. McCarty | Aug 28, 2024 | Blog
Poor Advice for writing; knowing how to end before you begin. This year, in the two-thousandth and twenty-fourth year of our Lord, I decided to start a new project, a novella that would change the world (that’s dramatic – In fact it will change nothing). I told myself...
by William C. McCarty | Jul 13, 2024 | Journal, Micro Fiction
The Past It was from the soil that they had thrown themselves up, into the wind, to spread thinly over the broad horizon. Many had fallen back to the soil, and remained. There were the few that scattered out as far as the sea that churned – drifted over the dark...
by William C. McCarty | Jul 13, 2024 | Blog
An Introduction I was never a reader growing up. Books were detestable, a waste of my time. Oh, how wrong I was in my youth. One day, I picked up a novel tied to a popular film franchise, and was amazed at how cool the story was. Wow, a book was just as good, if not...
by William C. McCarty | Jul 12, 2024 | Blog
I have the desire to write. Or, maybe, it’s a desire I had – long ago. Story ideas flourished in my mind. I had drawn pictures, created playlists of inspirational music, and made lists of names and places of the worlds I could see. Now, my mind is a wasteland....
