Julia’s Writing

Today we have a special post – two stories for the price of one!  (Namely, that price is free, but hey, who’s counting, right?).
In honor of my wonderful father’s birthday, I am posting two stories. The first is called A Walk in the Park and it is by my dad, Grahame Scott-Douglas.  He wrote this [...]

Nobody has ever asked me where I get my ideas, so this is simply mental masturbation. But, I do think about where I get my ideas from, because sometimes they make me smile and sometimes they just freak me out.
Usually I like to say most of my ideas are inspired by authors I admire, which [...]

Last week I had goals.  Did I make them? Haha, hehe, hoho. Er… short answer? No.
Long answer, here’s where I’m at (for anyone who cares to know):
Word count on my YA novel: 12,307.  I wrote a little over a thousand words on it this weekend.  Ouch.
I did, however, complete editing my picture book (which, I [...]

Here’s a short poem I wrote a while back… it’s not about fantasy or sci fi, it’s just a short piece about things I sometimes have to remind myself.
Presenting… If My Heart Had a Mouth.

I feel better!  Yay and Hallelujah!  I’m gonna get some writing done tonight.  Enjoy the story tomorrow!

I just submitted the story I mentioned in my previous post (Getting Gas) to Tales of World War Z.
I’ve also submitted a story I wrote called “Suicide Note” to Horror Garage.
So, we’ll see how all that goes. I recently lost my first reader.   So, we’ll see if I find another good one soon.
I’ve [...]

I just finished a short zombie story called “Getting Gas”.  The first draft is 1,208 words.  I know writing a zombie story is probably cliche at this point, but you have to understand that zombies terrify me, so writing this story was no small task.  Anyway, next I have to do some edits and give [...]

Okay, I finally got some writing done.  I got feedback on Desperation from my first reader (who shall remain nameless…)  and I finished the edits.   It is now an 1,820  word short story.  I am going to submit it to Writers of the Future.  Cross your fingers and wish me luck.  I get so [...]

So the word count for Desperation went up to 1,961.  I’ve finished all copy edits and story edits and I’m giving it to my first reader.   The plan with this story is to send it along to Writers of the Future.  I might change the title though, because the ending changed… but maybe not.  We’ll [...]

So, today I wrote a 1,703 word short story.   It’s a Sci Fi story with the working title of Desparation.  I really shouldn’t say I wrote it today.  I actually started it about five days ago, but I’ve been working on it, editing and refining ideas since then.  Today I finally typed it up.