by R. Scott Boyer | Nov 2, 2024 | Creative Process, Excerpts, Inspiration, Meet the Characters, Short Stories
Previous Posts: Part 1 – Sun / Part 2 – Moon / Part 3 – Mouse The following day played out much the same as the night. Sun spent the entire time staring across the garden at Moon, who basked in her planter box overlooking the garden. Right as...
by R. Scott Boyer | Oct 18, 2024 | Creative Process, Excerpts, Meet the Characters, Short Stories
Previous Posts: Part 1 – Sun The next night, Mouse returned to the garden just as the sky turned grey. “What do you want me to do?” Mouse asked Sun. Sun, who had been thinking about it all day while staring at Moon, told Mouse his plan. “I want you to drag me,”...
by R. Scott Boyer | Oct 6, 2024 | Creative Process, Excerpts, Inspiration, Short Stories
They sprouted at opposite ends of the garden, so far apart that Sun couldn’t see Moon until she grew over the edge of her untamed planter box. Buried among the bramble by the hillside, it took Sun a long time to spot her pale white face. But once he did, he could not...
by R. Scott Boyer | Apr 19, 2022 | Creative Process, Excerpts, Inspiration
Over the weekend, I decided to write a short story based on a prompt for a job as a freelance writer. Turns out the job wasn’t worth pursuing, but I wrote the story anyway. The requirements were 500 words on the topic “What would you do if you woke up and...
by R. Scott Boyer | Feb 7, 2022 | Creative Process, Excerpts, Inspiration
A few weeks ago, my writers group starting offering prompts as a way to drive creativity and share stories related to a common theme. Basically, we pick a topic to write about, then a few words to integrate into the story. For the most recent prompt, we choose the...
by R. Scott Boyer | Oct 30, 2021 | Bobby Ether Series News, Excerpts, Meet the Characters, YA World
Chapter 9 of Scions of the Sphinx gives us our first look at the inside of Mu’at’s organization. What’s with the industrial warehouse full of mining equipment? We also get a look at Mu’at’s private penthouse (pretty swanky) and a glimpse...