Five Rings

Declaration

Nick Enlowe — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:46:34 +0000

My unspoken goal has been to complete (and when I say complete, I mean totally finalize) a short story by the end of this week (which gives me only one more day). I’m getting close, oh so close, but, the end of the week might be cutting it a little close. SO the next time [...]

Am I Awake?

Nick Enlowe — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:29:24 +0000

I haven’t made a post in a while. My friends and family keep telling me this. There’s several million reasons why I haven’t posted in a month or so (and I won’t bore you with the details), but one of the biggest deterrents is the niggling thought Who am I to talk about how I [...]

Brevity vs. Wit

Nick Enlowe — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:37:46 +0000

Brevity is the soul of wit. Except when it isn’t. I’ve thankfully been moving right along with my novel revision. (Last week falling down a flight of stairs and this week getting a kidney stone certainly didn’t help my cause, but I’m recovering well. And, as a result, I’ve been reading a lot more. I’m actually [...]

Ooh! Shiny!

Nick Enlowe — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:12:03 +0000

So I started working on my fifth story, then I realized I had nothing. My idea for stories five through eight was to follow the exploits of one character at a time through a war and interrelate all four … somehow. So I started thinking of interesting scenes and ways to correlate and show both [...]

The third and fourth stories

Nick Enlowe — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:18:57 +0000

The third story was another one that I got about halfway through, but it was far more ‘rough draft-y’ than my previous two attempts. I think it was partly just me being exhausted (read: lazy) at times, and partly because days off tend to keep me away from home, meeting those unspoken quotas for visiting friends [...]