Writing

Short stories, mostly fables, and a novel in the works

Short stories

  • The Rabbit and Fox Trilogy 3 stories

    Three linked fables: a meadow of rabbits who kept watch for foxes, the newcomers who wouldn't, and the fox who planned it all.

  • The Acorn Trilogy 3 stories

    Three linked fables: a squirrel and his acorns, the crow who decided who should have them, and the owl who saw what happened to the forest afterward.

Writing utilities

  • Grunt Force Story bible

    The working notes for Grunt Force, a novel in progress: the world-building bible, the characters and plotlines, and the style guide for writing it as a mosaic of chapters.

  • Writing Techniques Techniques

    Craft notes I keep beside the draft of Grunt Force, from 22 Bookfox videos: sentence shapes and words to cut, description, dialogue, building and pacing scenes, voice and point of view, time skips, the middle, theme, game structures and revision, with a live demo to try most of them on.

  • Classical Inspiration Inspiration

    What the classics, in the old sense of a civilization's foundational books, can teach a novel in progress: The Second Story's definition of a classic, standing on the shoulders of giants, Goethe's healthy versus sickly, how to read old books, and my Grunt Force reading list.

  • The NEO Fork Fork plan

    A plan for forking NEO, Hugh Howey's open-source word processor for authors, into a version for writing Grunt Force: a sentence shape suggester that waits for a pause, revision passes you ask for, and outline cards that ask questions.