Category Archives: Excerpt

Excerpt of the week: Garden Tomte

Posted on November 15, 2015 by crhodges

A spin-off of my novel-in-progress, working title (not a very good title), The Jötunheim Eruption, is another take on Fire Giants Attack the World. “Garden Tomte” is set in the USA, not Iceland, and the protagonost is a real Swedish-American … Continue reading →

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Excerpt of the week: The Jötunheim Eruption

Posted on July 12, 2015 by crhodges

After my two months of plotting angst (see Plotter or Pantser? and Writing from a plot, oops posts), and a whole lot of related writers block, I had a breakthrough last week.  Got almost 7000 words down on a new mythica fantasy … Continue reading →

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Excerpt of Pikes Peak Writers Conference week: Ragnarök Willie

Posted on April 23, 2015 by crhodges

I’m headed off to Colorado Springs tomorrow, to my first writers confab, the Pikes Peak Writers Conference. Double thrilling because I will also get to pick up an award for my urban fantasy novel, Ragnarök Willie. When an archeologist unearths … Continue reading →

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Excerpt of the week: Life as a Ghost

Posted on January 26, 2015 by crhodges

Finally got in a good writing weekend, cut 5000 words from a draft short story and wrote 2000 new words.  The old wording wasn’t bad, but the story that I was trying to tell had run away from me–I had … Continue reading →

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Excerpt of the week: Monoceros, Ptolemy Cluster

Posted on November 4, 2014 by crhodges

For the past couple of years I have had the good fortune to be part of a terrific writer’s group based in Louisville, Colorado.  Here is an excerpt from a talented fellow writer, Steven W. Johnson, who has a pro  credit to … Continue reading →

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Excerpt of the week: The Steamer Trunk

Posted on September 11, 2014 by crhodges

Mostly I write mythica fantasy, ghost stories or science fiction.  Every now and again I try something different — I’m actually working up a horror piece at the moment about the helhest (“Trampled”), and I have a magical realism piece in the … Continue reading →

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Gho is here

Posted on August 13, 2014 by crhodges

Five and a half years in the making, my very first story has just been published in the Bardic Tales and Sage Advice, Volume VI anthology by Bards and Sages Publishing.  Originally a novel, Gho  was trimmed down to a … Continue reading →

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Excerpt of the week: Capture the Flag

Posted on July 4, 2014 by crhodges

In honor of the 4th of July, here’s an excerpt from a yet-to-be-published sci fi short story, “Capture the Flag.”  Set in the not so distant future, the world watches as astronauts rush to the moon to protect the first American … Continue reading →

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Excerpt of the week: Riding the Bow Wave

Posted on February 19, 2014 by crhodges

Write what you know, they say.  Guys can’t write female characters, they say.  Well, for us spec fiction writers that just doesn’t work.  No one has been to Mars, nor Alpha Centauri, yet Sci Fi novels abound.  Vampires, ghosts and … Continue reading →

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Excerpt of the week: Casey at the Bat

Posted on February 3, 2014 by crhodges

In honor of all the grieving fans in Denver after striking out at the Super Bowl yet again, I thought Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat” was an appropriate excerpt for this week.  And while the poem actually doesn’t end, … Continue reading →

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