Noticing Newbies

Greetings to everyone at WDC.

I've been a casual writer for years and years, and get great enjoyment out of it. I look forward to using WDC as a prompt to do more of it, but not looking to write the next Great American Novel. It is also wonderful to have a forum to share my work more widely and get inspired by the work of others.

I make no great claims to creative expertise, but I do have a good eye for the technical side of writing. If you'd like a technical review of your work, drop me a line. Unless I get swamped, I'll be happy to take a look.

I have posted a few old things (all written in the last couple months) in my portfolio as well as a few written for WDC contests which are having some success.

For your conveniece, here they are, with a brief intro. I hope you have time to take a look at any that pique your interest. I'd love to hear your thoughts on any of them.

Lonesome Lee is a fun, strongly metered/rhymed poem about the life of the sourdough in the Yukon that hopefully begs to be read aloud. It was written to honor the style of Robert W. Service.

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Family Portrait is just that: a very short portrait of a family at the holiday table. Recognize anyone? I wanted to see if I could achieve with action what a camera does in an instant.

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Two Miles is an account of a marathon runner near the end of a race. I would love to hear feedback on the style of this story. I intentionally made it very repetive with short, choppy sentences to emulate the motion/breathlessness of the runner, and I would like to know if this comes across, and do these normally bad things work for this story. Please note, this is fiction.

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Unfinished Business was written in response to a contest prompt. Be warned it is quite violent. I attempted to communicate the brutality of the acts with completely dispassionate, detached narration. Curious if this comes across as chillingly as I would like, since this is not a genre I am comfortable writing or reading.

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42 Presents I wrote this Xmas after I found myself standing in line behind a woman bragging that her unborn granddaughter had 42 presents under the tree. I sickened me. Please don't comment on the grammar, since there is almost none!

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