Script Frenzy, Drama, & Comedy

orchard | March 31, 2010

I am participating in the Script Frenzy even this April.  My good friend Big-O will be working with me to help in the project.  The goal is to write a 100 page script in the month of April.
So right now we have a concept and have outlined a plot.  We are working this script as [...]

Audio Drama, POV, & self-flagellation

orchard | March 4, 2010

I’ll be blunt…I don’t know much of anything about writing audio dramas.  In fact, I’m not sure I know anything about writing.  With that in mind, I am trying to get in the mind frame appropriate for writing more fiction.  The audio drama will be centered around the entire TMOG concept, telling the story of [...]

Treachery

orchard | February 26, 2009

I wrote this short story in the summer of 1999 while working in Utah for my uncle drilling granite. I was far from any close friends, and I had a fair bit of spare time on my hands when I wasn’t working 10 to 12 hour shifts. At that time I wrote this and a [...]

Irony

orchard | February 26, 2009

While this story is much shorter than some of my other stories, I do like it. It illustrates a number of things, but mostly that sometimes we make decisions without even considering that we don’t have all the relevant information, let alone what that information is. Of course, when you are just trying to get by, sometimes it is difficult to see past that. Then again, I can’t put too much description of the story here, or this will be longer than the actual story. Don’t blink, or you’ll miss the irony. Also, yes I am aware that this may or may not be an actual demonstration of irony as the reader understands it. Oh well.