R. J. Wordsmith

This is actually kind of funny because I just finished a series of ten short stories about a magical candymaker. But down to prompt business.

His sweets glimmered in the dim light, glowing with the untold possibilities of a thousand wishes.

Due to a new plant virus, nearly all the earth’s vegetation has died. You are a potato farmer, one of only three left in the world, and last night someone broke into your garden.

Thank you so much @ethryndal! I can’t believe I missed that. Will fix right away.

Oh, by the way, what is your blog called? I’d enjoy reading some of your other work.

@winter-rose This is definitely good, you do an amazing job of projecting personality and conveying mood. You used ‘I’ in some places a little too frequently, and there are some rough spots. A couple of sections, instead of moving the plot along, hint a little that they are disguised information reveals. Various words and phrases could be…[Read more]

Floccinaucinihilipilification: The act or habit of estimating something as worthless. This actually is a real word, found in the Oxford Dictionary.

Floccinaucinihilipilification: The act or habit of estimating something as worthless. This is a real word, found in the Oxford Dictionary.

Actually, this is like the only sad story I have ever written. Any others I release in the future will have much happier endings.

@ingridrd thanks for reading! I did consider having a ‘For Sale’ sign, but the thing is that the whole story has already been told. What I mean is, this is rather beyond a ‘Happily Ever After’, that was when Ralph and Laurie came to live there. Now the place is old, and much too run down to sell. The house will soon be gone, and with it, the…[Read more]

“You hoard potatoes?!”
“What? Haven’t you ever seen a vegetarian before?”
“You’re a dragon!”

For both reading and writing, I would have to say fantasy. So these three novels, are they separate or a series?

@rachelle nice to meet you! Congratulations on your novel progress, and keep up the good work. What’s your favorite genre?

Thank you both! @emma-flournoy when a house is marked ‘condemned’ it means it will be torn down. I have never read The Giving Tree, or I might have and just not remember it. @kate-flournoy I would love to make all my little baby short stories into books, but alas! I cannot draw well enough. A little, but not enough to do the characters justice.

Thank you both! @emma-flournoy when a house is marked ‘condemned’ it means it will be torn down. I have never read The Giving Tree, or I might have and just not remember it. @kate-flournoy I would love to make all my little baby short stories into bboks, but alas! I cannot draw well enough. A little, but not enough to do the characters justice.

By a miracle writing something that is actually amazing, but it always gets shoved to the back shelf so no one ever has a chance to see it.

What I find my courage in is knowing that if my work can impact just one life for Christ, I’ll have succeeded.

@the-bean @winter-rose @emma-flournoy Hello! I have not read Till We Have Faces, but a lot of people have mentioned it, so I probably will be sometime.

The door in in itself, was not unusual. However, the fact that it was standing by itself in the middle of a field was.