<This article contains links to Amazon products. To be fair, I made them myself.> A Taxi Home is the new short story by Katriona MacMillan, the book and eBook versions both contain When the Meter’s Not Running, a scripted adaptation of the short story which lasts around ten minutes. Pick Up Your Copy Here! What’sContinue reading “New Release: A Taxi Home / When The Meter’s Not Running”
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Writing the Shadow People
Developing a short story by Katriona MacMillan. Hello again and welcome to another exciting episode of “what the hell was going through my head when I wrote that?!” This week we will be focusing on The Shadow People, a short story I released for Halloween in 2023. FYI in the horror sector, there’s a bunchContinue reading “Writing the Shadow People”
We Should All Make It.
by Katriona MacMillan Just stay alive another minute That’s all you need to do. If you can manage another minute Then you’ll maybe manage two. A minute will become an hour If you leave it long enough Hours turn to days, days become weeks, Weeks, eventually, will turn into months. Because how you feel inContinue reading “We Should All Make It.”
How to Create Short Story/Essay/Blog Ideas?
This not-a-plot-graph tactic can help you create winning stories, essays, blogs, and poetry. You have heard of a plot graph? That’s when you use a graph to plot out things like Act 1, Act 2, rising action, and climaxes of your story. When I am stuck with story ideas – or when I have aContinue reading “How to Create Short Story/Essay/Blog Ideas?”
Night Terrors
A two-minute short film by Katriona MacMillan 1. EXT, NIGHT, AN OPEN SPACE We are the camera. We are running in the dark. Ahead of us are trees and a look back over our shoulder shows the lights of a house in the distance. We trip and land in leaves, when we get to ourContinue reading “Night Terrors”
Hiring a Freelance Writer: 3 Reasons DIY Won’t Do
Writers create landing page content, blog posts, and more. Writing isn’t something that you think about on the day to day. Unless you own your own business, want to create your own website, or have a project that needs to be word-perfect, you might never need one. If you have ever tried to do anyContinue reading “Hiring a Freelance Writer: 3 Reasons DIY Won’t Do”
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