Hemingway Editor Makes You Write Like Shit, Not Like Hemingway

I am disappointed to learn that there exists an app that appropriates the name of one of the great American authors and yokes it to a machine text editor which will, invariably, drive its victims to write more like schoolchildren than the person for which it’s named. I am further disappointed to learn that this […]

Where Have You Been, Nathaniel? – Update

Where, indeed. Well, not writing Heartblood, that’s for sure. Yes, I’ve been busy, in that way that really means “I’m catching up on paying work but mostly feeling tremendously guilty for all the time I’m not catching up on work.” Oh well. Heartblood was on life support for a while, but it’s being actively worked on once […]

SHOT Show Sucks

20 days is an eternity to have no updates, but SHOT Show happened and sucked all of my time down its vortex of bland firearms products. Writing now. Soon.

Heartblood Progress Report

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted a new Heartblood chapter, but the project is ongoing despite that. I’ve been traveling since late December, and so it’s been difficult to find time to write. Also, as of January 4, I have been on vacation (including from TFB), hence the halt in updates. However, I’m […]

HEARTBLOOD, Chapter 4: Rescue

CHAPTER 4: RESCUE His clean shaven, youthful face and nut brown hair, not yet showing grey, said he couldn’t be older than his early twenties. He was dressed in slate blue cargo pants held at the waist with a nylon belt, and a black t-shirt with a white fire department logo over the breast. The […]

Why Isn’t HEARTBLOOD First Person?

The answer is because first-person is a specialty tool that first time writers treat as a general-purpose one. I wouldn’t claim to be an authority on the subject, but if asked by a first time writer about the subject, I would say to avoid the first-person perspective like the plague. I should note that I […]

How Does HEARTBLOOD Work?

I wanted to really quickly update the blog with some information regarding exactly what Heartblood is, the direction it’s heading, and what readers can expect in terms of the site and story management. For that one person worried about spoilers, there won’t be any here. Heartblood is, currently, a web serial, but it is being written […]

HEARTBLOOD, Chapter 3: Wake

CHAPTER 3: WAKE The cave was part of a very old system of the sort that, if it had been discovered by man, would have been the site of furious paleontological study. Its walls and ceilings, unadorned by stalactite formations, wrapped around a wide antechamber that led to several lesser chambers. The rock from which […]

Title

I guess we have a title now. You are reading something called “Heartblood.” It’s not a romance. Enjoy or whatever.

HEARTBLOOD: Interlude 1

JUNEAU EMPIRE Two children missing in Kupreanof after camping trip gone wrong Madison and Joshua Clark were reported missing in Tongass National Forest earlier this afternoon Posted: July 21, 2017 – 7:58pm By Nick Moss KUPREANOF – Madison and Joshua Clark of Hilliard, OH have gone missing on the Northeastern end of Kupreanof Island, near […]