short story – The Chimerical Dark

Fortitude

Posted on August 11, 2025 by SeanMDavis in Business of Writing, Writing

What it takes to be a professional writer.

Coming Home

Posted on July 28, 2025 by SeanMDavis in Fiction, Writing

An update on Codename: Fairyland

It Sounded Like a Good Idea at the Time

Posted on June 2, 2025 by SeanMDavis in editing, Fiction, update, Writing

An update on Codename: Candy. We're in the editing stage, y'all!

The Pushback

Posted on May 5, 2025 by SeanMDavis in Day in the Life, Thinking out loud, Writing

Thinking about ways to push through the pushback.

Sold a Short Story

Posted on April 20, 2025April 20, 2025 by SeanMDavis in anthology, Fiction, Published, Writing

I share some redacted details about a recent story acceptance.

An experiment in publishing

Posted on January 21, 2023 by SeanMDavis in Business of Writing, Day in the Life, Fiction, Published, Writing

Rather than talk about how I developed this story from an idea I jotted in my notebook under the working title, "Mirror Mad," I'm going to go through the thought process behind my decision to publish this story on Kindle myself, and what that process was actually like.

“Running with zombies,” without the warm up

Posted on May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 by SeanMDavis in anthology, Fiction, Published, Writing

I wrote "Running with Zombies" completely from the hip. In other words, I didn't do any notebook work for it, which is weird for me. In the age old debate between pantsers and planners, I put myself squarely halfway between pantsers and planners, haha. I don't plot out every single detail about my plot before … Continue reading “Running with zombies,” without the warm up →