Michael Parkes's Blog - Posts Tagged "writing-update"

Editing my horror manuscript has mainly become writing again. Specifically, since I’m writing Elijah’s (the protagonist) father to be a tyrannical monster, I’ve added a lot of subtle things to highlight that. He gives his wife “the look” when she’s invited to visit a church lady’s house, and she nervously darts her eyes from the church lady to her husband, hoping he won’t react badly. He blows up at his son when he shoots a deer and gives nonsense reasons, but really it’s because he’s jealous his son gets the “glory” for it. I even write the mask slipping sometimes and people glaring at the father for his actions that slip out in public. Going to be a bit more intricate to capture the feeling I’m going for, but overall, writing’s going well!

Writing’s going good. Nearly done getting beta reads on a short story I’m submitting to an anthology, and my current WIP is looking like it’ll be a fantasy YA book. It has gnomes in it (no surprise there) and will also have a glossary for all the fantasy terms

I’ve been mostly writing blog posts and poems this week.

I am still writing some short stories for an anthology of local authors too; tentative release date of September.

I hope to hear if Lookalikes got into the Ottawa Exhumed anthology soon as well.

I’m still writing short stories for an anthology of local authors. The latest one is a short horror story based on that weird area I found hiking once.

I’ve been writing posts for my blog and that’s been fun too

I’ve been writing a short story based on that weird area in the woods I found a few weeks back (pics are on my socials). I want to get around 3-5 short stories together to submit to the anthology and this one will be a fun surreal horror piece.

My short stories for the anthology of local authors are coming along nicely. I’ve been having fun writing the one based on that strange area I found hiking once; it’s a parallel world horror type of thing.