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Friday, April 24, 2009

I had my first radio interview for Name Your Tale Wednesday night. I stayed up past my bedtime to talk to Peter Anthony Holder on Holder Tonight, a talk show in Montreal and Toronto.

The interview lasted a half hour, so I had enough time to wax philosophical about fiction writing. One point I tried to make was that an advantage of writing over other media is that it isn’t limited by technology. I guess that’s not totally true. What I really meant is that if you are a competent writer, you are only limited by your own imagination.

The reason I was so excited to talk about imagination in writing is that I had a great experience pushing myself to be more imaginative earlier that evening. I started noticing a trend in my stories for Name Your Tale. A lot of them were more realistic than my usual stuff, and some were pretty sad. I was afraid I would start bumming people out after a while if I kept it up, so when I started thinking about how to write my version of “I Want Out” for the Thursday Threesome, I started by telling myself “be imaginitive,” which myself interpreted as “write about magicians.”

Here’s that story: (Continued)

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Published: Flying the Co-Op

Thursday, April 9, 2009

I’m very happy to announce that my short story, “Flying the Co-Op” has been published by the cool little press from Lawrence, KS, Johnny America.

Check it out, as well as the other stories Johnny America has in their archives. I think it’s safe to say I’m in good company there.

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Introducing Name Your Tale (dot com)

Monday, March 23, 2009

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been donning a web producer hat on top of my writer hat. Which works out, because my web producer hat is one of those big three-pointed colonial deals, and my writer hat is more like a beanie, but all one color and without the propeller. So I guess you could say it’s more of a writer yarmulke.

What’s the point of all of this hat wearing? Glad you asked, and good pun, by the way. The point is I started a new web site that I would like you to visit, and it’s called Name Your Tale.

The way it works is this: You think of a story title, we write the story. Now, before you get ahead of yourself, I’m not talking in the Royal We here, when I say “we write the story.” No, I’m talking about me and my good pal Jeremy S. Griffin. The goal right now is to publish two brand new 100-word stories a day, five days a week.

I’ve made some back room dealings with other close friends who will be making other forms of contribution to the site, so keep an eye out for a fancy logo and a fancy podcast with fancy music, featuring our favorites stories, read by Us – I mean, me. That was the Royal We sneaking in there.

It’s so easy, one of those little nodding bird thingies could do it, although the title would probably not make sense to any of us (all-inclusive us, that is).

So check out the site, let me know what you think, and, gosh darn it, submit a title.

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Short Story: Day at the Beach

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

flickr user citron_smurf This is a story that has haunted me for a while. Which is appropriate because it’s about a widower who is haunted by his late wife. Four or five years ago I tried to write it as a play. Basically, it was just one scene being played over and over, showing that the protagonist was stuck in a perpetual loop – of sadness! But as you can imagine, it was a little boring and a little depressing.

Back in the summer, I wrote a story in my composition notebook that was based on the same idea, but by the time I transcribed the thirty wide-ruled pages to fourteen typed pages, I was less than thrilled with it.

Then, about two weeks ago, I started thinking of this story again. But I was thinking of it in the present tense, urgently, I kept thinking, “Albert has forgotten. Albert has forgotten.” So I started a third iteration, this time as a flash story. I finished it last night, and no where in it do the words “Albert has forgotten” appear, but I like the way it reads, and I hope that, by sharing it here, it will no longer haunt me.
Day at the Beach by Nick Faber

(photo via flickr user citron_smurf)

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Published: A Higher Love

Monday, March 2, 2009

One of my flash pieces, “A Higher Love,” was published in the March issue of The Shine Journal, an online journal featuring “Exceptional Flash, Poetry, Art and Photography.”

It’s always nice to see my words published by someone else.

My good friend David Francois has written and recorded a song about this story called “An Inch Off the Ground,” under the moniker Modern Royal. You can hear it on his blog.

And no, it is not just a cover of that Steve Winwood song.

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