I'm letting people know that I would love to have some more followers on the blog or on Facebook so I've decided that I'll do a little challenge to my readers. If we can get to 50 Likes on Facebook/followers of the blog I'll post the last chapter and epilogue of "A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing" early. Otherwise it'll be posted sometime on Friday of next week.
It's your choice, but I would love to be able to share the ending...
Also, If I can figure out how to do a generic link to the Facebook page I'll post it here.
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Free stuff
Sorry for the delay, I just got back from a vacation and life is being difficult. Nanowrimo planning is taking more time in planning that I thought it would and so my evenings have been surprisingly busy. I guess that is the cost of being an ML.
Sadly that means the story is delayed but to make up for it I'm handing out some free e-books from Thursday 10/15 - Saturday 10/17. So if you want to read more about Patch get the book and read the story at the end of the collection, The Last Day of School. The link is below.
http://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Sanity-Travis-Coleman/dp/1507631723/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444886793&sr=8-1&keywords=escaping+Sanity
Please enjoy the stories.
Sadly that means the story is delayed but to make up for it I'm handing out some free e-books from Thursday 10/15 - Saturday 10/17. So if you want to read more about Patch get the book and read the story at the end of the collection, The Last Day of School. The link is below.
http://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Sanity-Travis-Coleman/dp/1507631723/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444886793&sr=8-1&keywords=escaping+Sanity
Please enjoy the stories.
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Delay of Game!
Hello to you select few people who read my blog regularly. First off let me say I appreciate your support and I hope you're inviting others to enjoy the story. That being said this week has decided to come at me with a chainsaw and I'm currently hiding in a cupboard barely breathing and hoping to go unnoticed. So, once this week leaves the room I'll get this story finished, (sometime this weekend). I'll post to Facebook and Twitter when it's available.
That being said, find my page on Facebook and like it, as I try to fill it with awesome stuff! Follow me on Twitter at @TravColeman and be prepared for updates. This story is going to get serious and there will be updates every week for October until the end of "A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing." I hope you are ready for it.
That being said, find my page on Facebook and like it, as I try to fill it with awesome stuff! Follow me on Twitter at @TravColeman and be prepared for updates. This story is going to get serious and there will be updates every week for October until the end of "A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing." I hope you are ready for it.
Friday, August 28, 2015
Irons in the Fire
An author friend of mine once commented that he felt the need to keep many irons in the fire. It worked well for him to rotate through stories. When one wasn't speaking to him he'd rotate out and work on another in order to keep himself writing.
I love this analogy. There is a bit of a geek inside me that would love to work a forge, but that aside it speaks of something true. A story and a piece of metalwork have a lot of similar properties. Neither are going to be perfect on the first try. Both need to be tempered, cared for, and worked carefully under a watchful eye. What someone who has just written their first short story sees as beautiful, someone who has put his time in at the forge will say that it needs work and can point out flaws.
I think the part of the analogy that I like best though, is both can produce a thing of beauty. The finish product can be beautiful, terrible, useful, or elegant. But once they're forged you can have them until they sell to someone who will love and care for them.
I bring this up because I've got a lot of pieces of work out right now that I'm waiting to hear back on. Nothing novel length, only short and flash fiction pieces that I've enjoyed writing. I know that my odds of success and my odds of failure are pretty much the same. But if I get rejected I can always comb over it again and try for another sale.
The hardest thing you can do is to keep producing though when nothing is selling. To keep practicing when success hasn't been around in a while. Eventually though, it's bound to turn up, I can only hope that I have what it's looking to buy when it does.
Also, check out the new chapter of "A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing" which was posted tonight. Plus, if you'd like to read more by me check out the self-published short story collection "Escaping Sanity" on Amazon. There are many irons in there that taught me something about writing.
I love this analogy. There is a bit of a geek inside me that would love to work a forge, but that aside it speaks of something true. A story and a piece of metalwork have a lot of similar properties. Neither are going to be perfect on the first try. Both need to be tempered, cared for, and worked carefully under a watchful eye. What someone who has just written their first short story sees as beautiful, someone who has put his time in at the forge will say that it needs work and can point out flaws.
I think the part of the analogy that I like best though, is both can produce a thing of beauty. The finish product can be beautiful, terrible, useful, or elegant. But once they're forged you can have them until they sell to someone who will love and care for them.
I bring this up because I've got a lot of pieces of work out right now that I'm waiting to hear back on. Nothing novel length, only short and flash fiction pieces that I've enjoyed writing. I know that my odds of success and my odds of failure are pretty much the same. But if I get rejected I can always comb over it again and try for another sale.
The hardest thing you can do is to keep producing though when nothing is selling. To keep practicing when success hasn't been around in a while. Eventually though, it's bound to turn up, I can only hope that I have what it's looking to buy when it does.
Also, check out the new chapter of "A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing" which was posted tonight. Plus, if you'd like to read more by me check out the self-published short story collection "Escaping Sanity" on Amazon. There are many irons in there that taught me something about writing.
Friday, August 14, 2015
A Change in Schedule
I've been struggling to work on my serial during the weekends as that is when I get the most writing time. As a result I find myself distracted by bigger projects and tinkering away with A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing during the weekdays. As a result I'll be moving updates to Friday's every other week until the story plays out.
Now without further ado, please go and read Chapter 8 here.
Now without further ado, please go and read Chapter 8 here.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Delayed story
This is a quick post to anyone who is following my blog, there will be a delay in this weeks story. I'm scrambling to get it done, but this weekend left me fighting to make sure I had the order of events for these chapters. As a result of that it set back the progress and I've thrown away about three start's. It is coming though and I haven't forgotten you. I'll post on Facebook and Twitter when it's done. Until then go read my friend Lee's story Silence in the Willow Fields. He's working on getting a site updated for more stories and I'll be with you shortly.
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Writers Groups
I am a couple days overdue on a blog post and I apologize for that. I was searching for a good topic and my mind like an arid desert. Nothing took root, nothing grew, so I waited. I'm glad now that I did because I found a topic that I loved and will now happily write about: Writers Groups.
There is something enjoyable about getting together with like minded individuals which helps kindle the arts. While this isn't true in all cases, sometimes amazing things occur when minds come together. When musical groups and writers get together ideas bounce around and great things happen. Best of all, in my point of view, the people come out of it feeling strengthened and the creative juices replenished.
An example that I like to use is the song Fame by David Bowie. If you're not familiar with it please stop everything you're doing and go watch it here. Now that we're all familiar with it you'll recognize the lovely and iconic guitar part. The story I've heard about this that John Lennon used to have a place in New York where different musicians would meet and jam. The output of one of these sessions when David Bowie was there was this guitar part, it was something that David Bowie was interested in and so he was told he could have it.
Now this isn't something for everyone and there comes a certain level of paranoia. Letting someone into your creative circle can be both amazing and poisonous. When someone seems like a thief there to steal every gem of an idea it doesn't foster the creative spirit. But when respect is shown, and the ideas of each person are treated with the reverence of a fine painting, it is an amazing experience.
I know this is shorter than my normal posts, but having had my first writers group meeting in almost six months was awesome. If you're part of a writers group or circle, take a minute and thank those around you. Thank them for taking your questions about "which household chemicals could cause a laxative effect without killing the person?" or "If the sun were white instead of yellow what color would things show?" seriously. Also, should you want to know the answers to the questions, 1) Epsom Salt 2) I'm still working on a good way to figure that one out.
There is something enjoyable about getting together with like minded individuals which helps kindle the arts. While this isn't true in all cases, sometimes amazing things occur when minds come together. When musical groups and writers get together ideas bounce around and great things happen. Best of all, in my point of view, the people come out of it feeling strengthened and the creative juices replenished.
An example that I like to use is the song Fame by David Bowie. If you're not familiar with it please stop everything you're doing and go watch it here. Now that we're all familiar with it you'll recognize the lovely and iconic guitar part. The story I've heard about this that John Lennon used to have a place in New York where different musicians would meet and jam. The output of one of these sessions when David Bowie was there was this guitar part, it was something that David Bowie was interested in and so he was told he could have it.
Now this isn't something for everyone and there comes a certain level of paranoia. Letting someone into your creative circle can be both amazing and poisonous. When someone seems like a thief there to steal every gem of an idea it doesn't foster the creative spirit. But when respect is shown, and the ideas of each person are treated with the reverence of a fine painting, it is an amazing experience.
I know this is shorter than my normal posts, but having had my first writers group meeting in almost six months was awesome. If you're part of a writers group or circle, take a minute and thank those around you. Thank them for taking your questions about "which household chemicals could cause a laxative effect without killing the person?" or "If the sun were white instead of yellow what color would things show?" seriously. Also, should you want to know the answers to the questions, 1) Epsom Salt 2) I'm still working on a good way to figure that one out.
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