10 October, 2011 (08:00) | -Galley Table, Conversation, Fiction Tuesdays, Humor, Pirate take over, Podcast, Story, Writing | By: Jeff Hite
The Pirate’s Take over again Audio The Cabin Fever Laurence Simon Doc Coleman JP Losier Laura Nicole Scott Roche Zach Ricks And Jeff Hite We had Three story prompts, that we twisted in every conceivable way. Amazon.com Widgets Option # 1 Air Force Captain Key just spent two months digging his way out of the [...]
Tags: 100 word stories Podcast, Buck Rogers, Crystal mountain, fantasy, fiction, HAL, humor, Insurance Adjuster, Mall Rats, Podcast, science fiction, short story, Survivor, the wizard of OZ, War Game, writers, writing
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19 September, 2011 (10:59) | Conversation, Fiction Tuesdays, Notes from the Editor | By: Jeff Hite
One of the things that we want to do here at Flying Island Press is provide writers with the tools they need to write. We have a lot of services, so new some old, but one the things that the Pirates do is put out writing prompts. They are supposed to be daily but they [...]
Tags: fiction, from the editor, Pirates, Pirates Cove, writers, writing, writing prompts, writing tips
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6 September, 2011 (09:45) | -Galley Table, Fiction Tuesdays, Humor, interview, Notes from the Editor, Podcast, Writing | By: Jeff Hite
Pirate take over This episode The Pirate Captain (AKA Jeff Hite) (AKA Capt. Jack Smiley) hires some mercenaries and they take over the galley table. Galley Table 48 We are joined by: Veronica Giguere Doc Coleman James Keeling and Zach Ricks We talk prompt based story writing, like you can find here on Fiction Tuesday [...]
Tags: author, crew, Doc Coleman, fiction, Fiction Tuesdays, FlagShip, from the editor, good writing, humor, James Keeling, mutiny, Podcast, science fiction, short story, Veronica Giguere, writers, writing
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16 August, 2011 (09:20) | Conversation, Fiction Tuesdays, Story, Writing | By: Jeff Hite
Bullets and Tears By Dan Absalonson From Daily Writing Prompt #48 Please consider leaving a donation over 60% of all donations go straight to the author William stood over the body and wept. It was not the first time and would not be the last, but still he wept. Killing was part of his job. [...]
Tags: fiction, publishing, Reading, science fiction, short story, writing
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7 June, 2011 (09:37) | Conversation, Fiction Tuesdays, interview, Notes from the Editor, Podcast, Writing | By: Jeff Hite
Kids Writing Each week I produce a piece that talks about a different aspect of getting words out on a page. This week I interviewed a group of kids about stories, telling stories and talked to them about getting their work published. Download the Having the Courage to Do What is Write Audio here Thanks [...]
Tags: fantasy, fiction, from the editor, good writing, humor, interview, Kids writing, nanowrimo, Podcast, publishing, Reading, rejection, role playing, science fiction, self publishing, submissions, writing tips
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24 May, 2011 (13:13) | Conversation, Essay, Fiction Tuesdays, Notes from the Editor, Writing | By: Jeff Hite
This week I take a break from Fiction Tuesday as I wait for the first few stories to come in for our new contest, and instead talk about the courage it takes me, and I suspect many others, to write. Finding the Courage to do What is Write. By: Jeff Hite When you think of [...]
Tags: author, editing, from the editor, good writing, publishing, Reading, submissions, writers, writing, writing tips
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17 May, 2011 (13:45) | Conversation, Fiction Tuesdays, Notes from the Editor, Podcast, Story, Writing | By: Jeff Hite
Download the Audio version of this blog post Welcome to Pirate’s Cove an imprint of Flying Island Press. I say that nearly every week, and some times multiple times a week, but what does that really mean? I have been thinking about that for a long time. While I really enjoy working on all the [...]
Tags: contest, from the editor, Podcast, writing
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10 May, 2011 (10:15) | Conversation, Fiction Tuesdays, Notes from the Editor, Story | By: Jeff Hite
Mr. Johnson, The Very Minor god By: Jeff Hite This story was inspried by a writing prompt from Mur Laferty’s The news from Poughkeepsie series find out more at Murverse.com When Johnson, or Mister Johnson, as his one and only subject called him, was called into being he knew two things: first that he had [...]
Tags: fantasy, from the editor, writing
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3 May, 2011 (08:12) | Fiction Tuesdays, Notes from the Editor, Story, Writing | By: Jeff Hite
Every Tuesday, you will get an original piece of fiction. This week I bring you: Mine! By: Jeffrey Hite “Geeez Susan, I’m sorry I was late,” Neil said as he walked into her office. She signaled for him to close the door. “The directions to this place that they gave out on Friday were [...]
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26 April, 2011 (10:44) | Conversation, Fiction Tuesdays, Notes from the Editor, Story | By: Jeff Hite
On Tuesdays we’ll be presenting a little of bit of fiction. They will normally be based on one of the prompts provided from the pirates. Today’s story is: Scarlet Minster Jack Major had always been alone nearly all of his life. He had been an only child, as was [...]
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