Eric James Stone

As you may have noticed, my NaNoWriMo stalled out, partly because I realized I didn’t have some of the characters clear in my mind. But never fear, I still plan on completing the novel. I won’t leave you hanging permanently.

Someone asked why I was posting the novel publicly online. While it still might hurt my chances of getting it published, print publishers are becoming more comfortable with things that have been published online. But mainly it’s because writing this novel and posting the chapters is an experiment on my part.

Previous chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Chapter Nine

After fifteen minutes of fruitless searching for the Minnow in the Camelot High parking lot, Aidan gave up and found a payphone. He called home, and Stephanie answered.

“Is Jessica there?” he asked.

“Yeah.”

Aidan let out an exasperated sigh. “She left me here at school.” Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s been almost three months since this actually happened, but I’m finally getting around to blogging it.

I was privileged to be invited to serve as the Master of Ceremonies for the annual convention of the League of Utah Writers. Basically, my duties consisted of (1) introducing the speakers, and (2) awarding door prizes by drawing numbers. Needless to say, duty #1 was more difficult but also more interesting.

On the evening of Friday, September 15, I got to introduce Elaine Christensen as the speaker at the Poetry Banquet. She gave an excellent speech, which included reading some of her award-winning poetry. I was particularly impressed by “Tornado” which you can read at http://www.comstockreview.org/winners/2000poem.html. Go on, read it before continuing, because I’m going to talk a bit about why I was impressed by it. Read the rest of this entry »