Hanged Man's Road Chapter 16: Paul wakes from a nightmare to find Lenny fevered and dangerous, and the choice ahead isn’t about trust but the kind of men he and Alan refuse to become.
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Hanged Man's Road: One last night of peace. Lenny finds hope. Tentative, flickering, and dangerously easy to believe in.
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Hanged Man's Road Chapter 14
The aftermath of the standoff. Lenny sees the ranch with new eyes. For the first time since his world collapsed, a future begins to take shape.
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Hanged Man’s Road Chapter 12
Hayes’s brutality leaves Lenny battered, but it’s Sybil’s raw honesty that cuts the deeper wound. Her anger and grief expose the weight she’s been carrying alone, stripping him of every excuse. open.substack.com/pub/ruelknud... #readersgonnaread #writingcommunity #horror
Hanged Man’s Road Chapter 11
Thrown into a stall like an animal, Lenny learns that protection can be cruel. Redemption begins at the bottom, where someone is waiting to grind him further down.
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Hanged Man's Road Chapter 10!
Lenny is reunited with his family. With protection secured and his future decided by others, Lenny learns that some consequences don’t punish—they endure.
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Hanged Man's Road Chapter 9
After nearly killing the man who ruined him, Lenny learns that survival isn’t about justice—it’s about leverage.
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Hanged Man's Road Chapter 8
The survivor begins his story. Discover what events led to Lenny joining the doomed cattle drive! open.substack.com/pub/ruelknud...
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I finished the first draft of the final chapter of my next book. There are still rewrites, but this is huge. I need a few days to decompress and live with the ending that I wrote. #writingcommunity
I simply want things to not be complicated
There is a light at the end of the tunnel. The end of my book draws near. But I need to pivot to rewrites of earlier chapters before I move on. I’m fighting the urge to finish the first drafts of the last chapters instead of trusting my process, which has worked well for my previous books. #writing
I like my writing
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"Heroes never think they’re heroes." — Terry Pratchett
“The villain is the hero of her own story.” — Michelle Hodkin
Together you get something like this:
The hero of a story doesn't believe they are one. However, the villain does.
My tip for a protagonists/antagonist dynamic. #writingcommunity
Anyone else finding it super-duper-uper hard to get back to work today? I think the sudden lack of pie (we finished the last of the leftovers yesterday) is seriously affecting my motivation.
#writing
Hanged Man's Road Chapter 7
The Highwaymen risk waking the stranger in Part One's final chapter!
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I am about to be very unkind to the solicitations for paid “beta readers.” At what point did writers start falling into traps where we pay people to read our work? It’s supposed to work the other way around.
#writingcommunity
The thing about getting kicked in the crotch is that you don’t get used to it. You spend your life not getting kicked in the crotch. So, when it happens, it's devastating. Even if life sucks, getting kicked still hurts.
Just a little thought that pops in as I write out stories. #writingcommunity
The Keeper's Light is on sale this month!
A floating obelisk nears a coastal village, awakening a lighthouse keeper’s ghostly past. He and his nephew must face its truth before it consumes their family.
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Trigger warnings? Fuck me, where do I even start? Mine or yours? Did I already mess this up?
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Two of my books, The Farmstead Witch and The Keeper's Light, along with many other great horror reads are on sale for $1.99 or less!
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I am a proud father of an active-duty Airman and Sailor. I want to thank them, those in service in all branches of the U.S. Military, the families and loved ones who support them, and especially those who served honorably throughout our nation's history.
#VeteransDay
Hanged Man's Road Chapter 3
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While rewriting a chapter of my book I sought out a thematic north star. I landed on:
A walk of shame after a very awkward one night stand.
I am writing literary horror set in a post apacolyptic western.
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I started my morning with a cup of coffee. I sat alone in a room while the house woke up around me. I looked out a window and watched the dawn. With noise outside my door, silence outside my window, I had a conversation with my intent. What will you do today to inspire yourself? #WritingCommunity
I feel like calling out people #reading in public as #performative is performative. Read in public, private, or standing on your head. But please read.
A screenshot of the AudioVerse Hall of Fame page showing the 2024 inductees: Cabin Pressure, Dungeons and Doritos, Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery, Once Upon A Time In Vegas, How To Succeed in Evil. https://audioverseawards.net/avas-hall-of-fame/#2024_Inductees
The main Dungeons & Doritos art, featuring the nude dwarf, Chair, the tiefling Jen'Ifer, Jamela the dragonborn, and Vimak the goliath.
Happy #AudioDramaSunday! This week I learned that my first narrative podcast, Dungeons & Doritos, was inducted into the Audio Verse Awards Hall of Fame last year! Which is cool but... no one let me know! Dungeons & Doritos was one of the earliest actual play podcasts (we started in 2009). 1/3
