I set out to experiment with voice but ended up with this instead. It’s a first draft, unrefined. Enjoy? Sven stood up and stretched, yawning. The ice may be cold on his hands, but he was still falling asleep out here. Not wise to sleep on the ice surface of […]
T. D. Speirs
I procrastinated posting for a couple of weeks because I wanted my next post to be a short story. Well yesterday I wrote a short story, but I like it too much to not submit somewhere first (somewhere = Writers of the Future). You will most likely get that story at a […]
Inserts Clickbait Title Here: Writing Takes Over
Tale Transcendents – the source stories, experiences, thoughts, beliefs and ideas from which all others flow. True or false, almost everything we know in life descends from at least one tale transcendent. Many people know my fascination with tale transcendents, but rarely if ever have I referred to them as such […]
What are the Tale Transcendents?
2 Ever since I posted this, I have thought it sounds a lot harsher than I meant it to. However, during my Great Purge of posts, I decided to keep it up despite its harsh-sounding tone. The information is still useful/meaningful/relevant/etc… I was going to make a list all along. What […]
Don’t Poke the Writer
The “wills” on the bus went round and round. You know that song? The wheels on the bus go round and round, except that in Kansas (or wherever the regional accent extends), wheels are sometimes pronounced “wills.” I probably did not catch this until I learned how to spell wheel, at […]
Things I Thought When I Was Little
This is a work in progress, which means you will find contradictions, random jumps and generally incomplete thoughts. An idea often attributed to Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain (with zero evidence that either one said it) says that it’s better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool […]
Draft: Why I Don’t Post About Politics (even if you think I do)
Ever since I started tdspeirs.com back in 2008, it has gone through many post-type changes, undergone numerous face-lifts and experienced many cycles of activity and downtime. Baggage piled on top of baggage until it formed a figurative tidal wave threatening to drown my site. At long last I decided to free myself […]