Book two of the three books, The Tales of Trymyll is now complete and available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle. Below are the first couple of chapters as a taster. Enjoy, like and comment please. Amazon UK link: https://tinyurl.com/mv84mec2 Amazon US Link: https://tinyurl.com/pk4eaycx Amazon Australia: https://tinyurl.com/ymersr9p Prologue. Thomas was thirteen. He didn’t believe in …
Author: Joseph R. Mason
Published author, poet, orator, blogger, father, grandfather, evangelical christian, theologian, counsellor.
A Journey – A Poem
Photo by ATC Comm Photo on Pexels.com 3rd September 2021 Life’s journey for some just plods along, for others, it’s a riot! Some rather not have too much fun, they like it rather quiet. Wherever life’s journey takes you, be sure to understand, The dealer does not hold the cards, and there’s aces in your …
Purple Moon – A Poem
Image from Clapway.com 28th August 2021 The modern-day definition of a Blue Moon is when there are 2 Full Moons in one month. A Full Moon occurs roughly every 29.5 days and on the rare occasion when the Full Moon falls at the very beginning of a month there is a good chance a Blue Moon will …
Choice
21st August 2021 Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com In my ear a small voice, “We all have a choice. We all have free will, to do good or for ill.” “We were never made perfect; we were born out of conflict. Sin was never our choice.” “But it was,” said the voice. “We could never …
Midnight
21st August 2021 Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels.com Please note, this is just a poem, it does not reflect me at the present but may resonate with some. Midnight? That’s not my time At least, not at my time of life Cocoa’s long been drunk Teeth cleaned, and into the arms of Morpheus But …
Death in a vase
Flowers, withering without water. Drying, dying, none to care. Petals dropping, one by one, Dying, drying, abhorrent, uncared. The slightest breeze and several fall Dried, died, yet still fragrant. Their perfume fills only the imagination. Reality is the smell of stagnation. The aroma of death, By midday sun or moonlit night They fall, dead, dry, …
The Glider.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Silence, gliding through the air. Wings outstretched, not really there, Thermals take me up and up High into the atmosphere. Soaring to heights where the air is thin Tweaking aileron, tinkering fin. Lost in a sky of azure blue, I wish that you could be here too To see the …
Writing scenes ahead of time…Seeing the future!
Another interesting article I thought worth a share. Have you ever worked on a story, then all of a sudden you have an idea for something that will happen several chapters ahead? As I’ve said before, I always know the ending of my stories. Although sometimes it changes slightly, but it stays in the same …
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What Is “Bad” Writing?
I saw this article and it resonated well with me...... Today on Twitter, someone called out an author for his “bad writing” and, as an author of many years with five published novels, I began to wonder what that term meant. Was the story not logical or appealing or was it more a grammatical problem? …
