New Bobby Grim Adventure Tomorrow

Tomorrow, we start a grand adventure together.

In the tradition of the fast-production pulps of old, I've got a wild plot and some zany, but dangerous characters, and through Twitter and Facebook, we'll create a crime fiction short story while posting less than 140 characters per day.

Now, you could watch me fall on my face in an experiment gone wrong, or you can guide my actions, and together we can invent a new medium—a pulpy sort of Tweet Fiction or Twitter Pulp.

Our plot:  When Wild Child Kat LeRouge hooks up with Bad Boy DJ Ponchatoula, they find out the hard way that some New Orleans cab drivers carry guns. Desperate for safer income, Kat decides to blackmail a crooked Louisiana politician—a scheme that brings this modern day Bonnie and Clyde face to face with CIA Black-Ops Baddie Bobby Grim.

The first installment hits Twitter and Facebook tomorrow.

Let me know what you think. Since technically this story hasn't been written yet, your thoughts and feedback will actually change the course and ultimate outcome of the story. As a group, you the readers, will actually decide who lives, who dies, and how many thrills they experience along the way.

Early Departure is just the Beginning

Today is a good day.

On Facebook and Twitter, I published the final installment of my Early Departure "eThriller" short story, and I'm ecstatic about the e-mail I've received. (I'm glad so many liked it. Now, if they would just post a review at Amazon—hint, hint).

I've gotten a few notes asking, "What's next?"

Unfortunately, I've got to keep the secret until next week, but I promise you'll love it.
Thanks again for all of your support!

Remember those Pulp Fiction Plots?

From Lester Dent, 1949…

This is a formula, a master plot, for any 6000 word pulp story. For me, it has worked on adventure, detective, western and war stories. It tells exactly where to put everything. It shows definitely what must happen in each successive thousand words.

No yarn of mine written to the formula has yet failed to sell.

The business of building stories seems not much different from the business of building anything else.

Here's how it starts:

• An unusual murder method
• An unusual goal for the antagonist
• A different locale
• A menace haunting the protagonist

One of these would be nice, two better, three swell. It may help if these are established before tackling the rest.

Let’s start with the unusual murder method. Thinking of shooting, knifing, hydrocyanic, garroting, poison needles, scorpions, a few others, and then listing them on paper gets them where they may suggest something—A listing for “scorpions and their poison bite” may cause the writer to consider mosquitoes or flies treated with deadly germs?