My Writing
I'm one of those people who has dozens of story ideas kicking around in his head, and not enough time to write them all. Most of them are some combination of fantasy or horror with humour mixed in, which is how you can tell I'm a well balanced individual. Here are some of the things I've written:
- The Meat Merchant - short story. Published in Onder Magazine #4, January 2017 (currently unavailable)
- Unseen - novel. Written basically in public, where every night I wrote about 3 pages and they went online immediately. It has not been professionally published, but it does have a website
- Adventure Hunts. This is a genre I invented that casts the reader as the protagonist in a National Treasure-style adventure story, where any time the protagonist encounters a puzzle, the reader must solve a puzzle to continue. Get on board at the Adventure Hunt website and back the project
- The Mein Of The Nine. Several years ago I wrote a long poem about the adventuring group The Mighty Nein, from Critical Role, encountering their one true enemy. You can read that poem here.
MYSTober 2024
For the month of October, 2024, Cyan Games has provided 31 one-word prompts - one for each day of the month. I have taken those prompts and written a series of single-page vignettes out of order that come together to form a cohesive story. Read them here.
#vss365
Twitter has a trend called #vss365 where every day there is a one-word prompt, and authors can write tweets that include that prompt word and are a self-contained very short story. For 2024, I am participating in this trend, but instead of writing 366 very short stories (because it's a leap year), I'm writing a single novella composed of all 366 prompts. I don't know what the prompts will be until they're released, and I don't know where the story is going until I get there. It should be uncontrolled chaos. Read it here.
Speech Only
I sometimes do an exercise where I write a cohesive, intelligible story without narration; I can only include dialogue, and that has to be enough to get the job done. Those stories are collected here. Some day you will tell your children about these stories, and they will say "tell us about the stories again, Steveny." Why they will call you Steveny, I don't know. But you will be happy to oblige, because you love the story of these stories as well. And that is how we will cure cancer.
