A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * “Unlimited danci

A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * Class rolled off

A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * “Five Physicks,”

A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! ***** Prop Master Rick han

A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! ***** Gods in the servers

Every story that exists wadn’t jack shit before. That new mind-blowing movie? It arose from a whole lotta nada. Your favorite novel? Less than zero at one point. The oldest epic poem or philosophy text that exists? Built. Someone built it. From nothing. Ideas you have aren’t bullshit just because you thought them up at 3am after you tried and failed to sleep. They’re not somehow less for being thought up when you were sacrificing a number two to the god of porcelain. Pretty s

Genitals. They’re the only things you don’t lose if you don’t use them. Creativity. Those stories and paintings you thought of will die if you don’t use them. No subtext intended. Use those ideas. Build them. Add to them by learning and researching, but get back to using them. That’s how they swell into grandiose masterpieces. Again, with the subtext. Artists consume art. Writers consume novels. Musicians consume tunes. Study that stuff and enjoy it at the same time. It ain’t

Burnout ain’t entirely evil, but it mostly is. Push your badass writer self a yard or two past the limit so you grow and learn to create more with less. Then rest and recover. Download a hundred writing podcasts over the course of a year and absorb that learning the way a sponge sucks up bourbon. Create despite the early stages of burnout. But don’t actually burn out. Both body and mind need recharge time. Remember those summer vacations in high school when you had three mont

Reach behind you and grab both ass cheeks right now. If you had to get out of your desk chair to do that, good. You’re probably writing. If you did that at the coffee shop, even better. You’re probably making people laugh AND writing at the same time. For those currently writing, continue to do so. For those who’ve spent too long away from their characters, wash your friggin’ hands and get back to writing! It’s not B.S. when they say, “Treat writing like a job.” Whether it pa

Summon up all your badassest writing powers and unleash them with perfect formatting, grammar, and plotting! Even when you do that, you’re gonna miss some of the targets you’re aiming for. And that shit’s okay. Missed your goal of doing traditional publishing in two years? You still wrote the thing, and you came away with your writer’s knives sharpened and ready. For the next goal. Learned all the self-publishing lingo and put your book out there in the rainforest only to sel

Writers, artists, and creators all started their journey by stitching a zombie arm to a pelvis without knowing why or how. That was a metaphor. That book you’re writing? It’s the product of you going all mad scientist. Think of the first time you started creating. Was it writing on receipt tape at the turd retail job you ditched? Or splurging on art supplies only for your first couple pieces to look like antiquated feces? Good! You took the first step. Now take a million more

Don't you just love it when your work sucks? Dumping rumploads of time into learning your craft and producing brilliant art feels friggin’ good. Then you learn some more, create more art, and BOOM! Your old stuff sucks shark dick. You’re not alone. Every creator out there has produced material that sucks more fish dong than they’d ever care to admit. Know how they broke the suck cycle? By learning and returning. Learn and return. Create, then take a break and branch out. Feed

Someone once said, “Make your muse your bitch.” That person didn’t take it far enough. Make your insanity your bitch too. You know it’s there. That cozy bed of crazy you retreat to when work gets rough or when everything starts to feel overwhelming. When you find yourself laughing at the ridiculousness of it all, jot down the ideas that well up in your brainpan. Channel that in a positive way and use it in your art later. Madness used for good is a bank account that you can n

Hangovers. Stagnation. Really sore genitals. All of the above are the result of too much of a good thing. Self-care is abso-friggin’-lutely important in this day and age. Giving your body and mind what they need to be their best selves takes time and effort. Time because we don’t have dinners in pill form yet even though it’s 2018. Effort because if you don’t use your body or your mind, they lose their edge. With their powers combined, time and effort will teach you things ab

A frick of a lot of things stop writers from writing. Fear. Distraction. Waiting for motivation. The choice to do things that aren’t writing. These are the monsters whose eldritch genitals we need to kick. A writer’s enemies are many, and the bigger threats are the internal monsters, not the external ones. Every time a writer, blogger, or comic artist puts her work out there, she’s winning one fight against those internal monsters. Just one. More are coming. The creating is n

They say, “Writing’s a lonely gig.” Dadgum wrong. Writing is about the people. Without readers, artists, and fellow nerds, writing is like shouting to an empty insane asylum, funny farm, nut house, or any other synonym you can think of. Laze back in your chair and think about some of the art you’ve consumed lately. No, not literally eaten. I mean art you’ve savored. Books you slow-read. Video games you let seize you by the schnoz. Rumploads of people are behind that art. What