If you’ve been reading FreshBlogger for a while now, you’ll know that I originally began blogging as an exercise for my creative writing. At the time, I was writing short stories and also had two novels partially completed. After a few months, the focus of my blogging shifted away from creative writing to the techniques [...]

Is there anything in the world better than the smell of baking bread?
He moves around the kitchen with purpose. First, he takes each ingredient out of the cupboard and carefully places it on the counter. Flour and sugar and salt and butter and eggs and baking powder. All lined up in a neat little [...]

Here’s another snippet of a story I’m working on revising:
The street lamps’ sickly yellow light slid greasily over the sky blue Monte Carlo as the long shape prowled the asphalt. With the windows down, the humidity of the night seemed to pour inside, sticking thickly to the stained and cigarette burned cloth seats. The smell [...]