You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting much on here lately, and when I do, it’s short stories, not art related things. I actually have been doing a lot of other things, especially art. But I joined Deviant Art this summer, so that’s where all my art posts have been going instead of…
Here’s a story I wrote for our story group, it’s based in a world I created for a novel, but the short story takes place about 800 years before the events of the book. The genre for the month was ‘Legend’, so I really wanted to write a legend from one of my fantasy worlds,…
A story for our group, genre: biography. Not sure how well this fits, but I’m pretty happy with how the story turned out. Most people who have fundamentally affected the entire human race are well known. Their names are embedded in time, known to generations of people. But others are not so lucky, and though…
Another story I wrote for our group, genre: Mystery. Not sure if it really fits, but it was the best I could come up with. The broadcast came on, despite the numerous attempts to stop it. There were the familiar scenes, the steel corridors lined with decorations of the inhabitants, the bedrooms outfitted to reflect…
Wow, I have really fallen behind with this blog. The good news is, I have a ton of stuff to post here. The bad news is I probably won’t get around to doing it for a while, because I’m lazy and get distracted by things (like getting a new drawing tablet, which I’ll definitely write…
January’s theme was Holiday, so I wrote this story: It was the strangest assortment of animals. Grizzly bears sat silently next to mountain lions, who in turn ignored the herd of deer that stood calmly by the edge of the clearing. There were small animals too: foxes, pine martins, rabbits and voles. Birds lined the…
Here’s my take on a western, written for our short story group. It is called ‘The Man With No Face’ There are some people who are quite terrible at everything. Cole Lightfingers was one of those people. But there was one thing ‘Fingers was good at, and he had built his entire life around it.…
So I decided to make a bunch of Christmas presents for my roommates, and since we all watch anime together, coming up with ideas was pretty easy. I went back to watercolours for these, because they are my favourite medium to work with.
Here’s the story I wrote for our short story group. Genre: historical fiction. I had just finished reading Margaret MacMillan’s wonderful book Paris 1919. We were supposed to change the world. The winter sun shone brightly through a smattering of clouds, a promise of the spring to come. A spring of hope, after four years of…
A while ago I posted a short story I wrote for a horror writers group I attended in Toronto. This inspired me to start a similar group, where we write stories each month in random genres. I have a couple backed up to post on this blog, but here’s one I wrote a few months back…
One of my roommates is finishing up his Master’s this week, and as a present for working so hard, I decided to paint one of his favourite anime characters, the god Yato form Noragami. It ended up turning into a bit of a bigger project, as I decided to paint Yukine for my other roommate and…
Here’s a story I wrote for our short story group. The theme was children’s story. I’m not sure how much I like the actual story, but I do enjoy the lands in it. In lands far away from ones familiar to you and me, there exist two great cities, each extraordinary in its own right,…
I’ve always been a bit of a history buff. I think I get it from my dad. I have a memory of me asking my dad to explain the history of the world to me, which I think he kind of did, to his credit. One area of particular interest to me (once again, I…
The other day I went up to Toronto to visit a friend. He mentioned that he was going to a horror writer’s group, where they shared short stories they had written. He invited me to attend, and so it was with some trepidation that I tagged along. You see, I’ve never written a horror story…
It’s that time of year again: Camp Nano! Somehow I always end up doing better in Camp Nano than NaNoWriMo itself — possibly because there’s a flexible word count goal in Camp Nano, but also because November is always the worst time of year for me, while April is pretty relaxed. I usually try and…
