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New Story – Perdition’s Posse

A new Sinner’s Tale is done, and is now up at the Free Story page.

If you’re not familiar with Seth McAllen, also known as “The Sinner”, you might want to track down a couple of the older stories that have appeared here at Mad Poet Files – specifically, “High Moon” and “The Devil’s Due”, available in e-book formats at bn.com or at Amazon.

With this story, I started taking some of the things I’ve been learning about actual US History and weaving them into the Sinner’s old west. There were a ton of changes, of developments that happened in the Old West in and around the end of the Civil War and the years immediately following.

This is a preview of New Story – Perdition’s Posse. Read the full post (405 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Retrenchment challenge counts…

11:26, Friday night. Word count – 2217. I really didn’t think I was going to make that second thousand words happen. Spent the afternoon after work yarn shopping (don’t ask) and going to dinner with friends, and that turned into a long conversation at their place. I had not planned on not getting home until about 10:30, feeling exceptionally sleepy. Maybe even exhausted.

But with a little space and time, I pulled the second thousand out of… my head? I guess?

This is a preview of Retrenchment challenge counts…. Read the full post (128 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)

Retrenchment Challenge: Are You In?

Ante Up - #AreYouIn?

Content here at MPF has been sparse lately, which is Not A Good Thing.

For the last few months, I’ve been working on a project at the Day Job that was taking a lot of my creative energy – involved a LOT of technical writing, legal consideration, and… you know what? Doesn’t matter. I was busy. Really freaky busy. Yes, yes. I know my Goodreads profile says something about my available time for the last few months.

So now it’s time to reclaim some of that time from the sweet, sweet Kindle-powered content consumption, and start plowing that back toward content CREATION.

This is a preview of Retrenchment Challenge: Are You In?. Read the full post (455 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)