The Twitter #fridayflash group allows you to post links to your flash fiction and add those flash fiction pieces to J.M. Strother’s collector to be included in his weekly Friday flash reports. Not only do you get great feedback on your stories every week, the group encourages constant inspiration and allows you to discover great flash from other talented writers.
Tags: #fridayflash, creativity, paranoia, Reading, writing
A few weeks ago, I started saving all of my blog’s comment spam and putting all of the spam comments together. Rather than just deleting everything as I usually do, I’ve been reading each and every message and surprisingly, I’ve been amused.
Tags: creativity, project, short story, spam
As you may know, I have several locations on the web where information about me is found. I have my Twitter account, this blog, my flash fiction for #fridayflash, my goodreads account, and I recently joined Formspring to give it a try. That’s a bunch of stuff going on at the same time. Enter Toten.me.
Tags: blogging, Freelancing, just for fun, screenshots
You will notice a distinctly new visual style for the Edgar Snatch header art when the new Edgar Snatch story is released tomorrow. I felt now was the best time to update the visual style for the serial, as Edgar Snatch is currently changing, evolving, and discovering more about himself. He’s learning limitations, his strengths and weaknesses, and falling deeper in the thrall of his own delusions.
Check out the newest Edgar Snatch inspired work to see a glimpse of the new visual style before tomorrow’s story is released.
Tags: Edgar Snatch, just for fun
It’s award season here at Totenfolio and Telling Creative Lies, obviously. A little over a week ago, I was awarded two lovely awards – the One Lovely Blog award, and the Versatile Blogger award – by Aidan Fritz. Then, I was given the Fabulous Flash Award over here, which I only learned about through a Google search result alert on my name (yeah, I know, I’m pretty vain and want to know where my name pops up online).
A few days later, I received the One Lovely Blog award and the Versatile Blogger award again, this time from Travis King. Travis King is a writer that I enjoy reading and hold a large deal of respect for because of his support of copyright reform through the release of most of his short stories under a creative commons license.
Tags: #fridayflash, award, blogging
One week has passed since I announced my comment spam story project. I’m happy to say that the spam hasn’t slowed down since that announcement. I’ve gotten some great material to work with. I have close to 40 spam comments saved, some with some really weird content in them, and at this point I’m not quite sure how I’m going to string it all together into a coherent story.
I fully expect to have enough material to get started in one more week, and look forward to the new spam I’m going to get between now and then. It’s going to be a train wreck and a great practice in creativity at the same time.
Tags: creative process, project, spam, update
