words and images by mk swanson
 
Category: <span>fiction</span>

101 Pages of Pure …

ScriptFrenzy ends in a half hour. I have 101 pages of a graphic novel entitled: Blue Loco: Goodbye to the Spy, which is about one half of the plot points contained in my novel, Blue Loco. This “treatment” of my novel has shorter, simpler dialog, fewer characters, more blatant sexual …

Short Story as Psychotherapy

“She sometimes imagined that she could hear the corpuscles knock on the valves, polite as old nuns, before sweeping in with their sacred bath of life.” This is a line I wrote for my short story, called Breathless. It is the post-apocalyptic tale of a woman, a mechanical egg, and …

Barely Counts

Barely counts. I am now an official winner of NaNoWriMo 2009, with 50,200 words and one hour to go. It feels pretty good, even though I have to admit, I’ve got a climax and denouement still to write. Yay for me!