Announcing the SAW (Story-A-Week) Project

I was so impressed by this recent New York Times article on musician Jonathan Coulton that I not only decided to swipe his idea of using Payloadz for online processing, but -- and more importantly -- emulate his commitment to producing a finished product once a week. In his case, it was a song. In mine, it'll be a short story. He's a fullt-timer, of course, (full-time musician, I mean) while I have three jobs, so I have less time to dedicate to my SAW Project, but that's OK. I'll grind one story out a week, anyway, and post them on the newly-created "Dark Tales Presents" blog.

If you go to Dark Tales, you'll find that I've already uploaded a few short stories, horror stories actually. Every now and then I go in for a nice spooky story. They're actually easier for me to write than mystery stories (no evidence or clues to worry about).

For a while, I couldn't decide whether to post the stories on my main author's website or to post them on the blog. I finally opted for the blog because I liked the template. Great basis for a decision, huh?

The stories being posted on Dark Tales are obviously free to read. They're even free to copy and redistribute, as long as the copier and distributer links back to me, either at Dark Tales or at my main author's site. Obviously, I need to pay rent and put food on the table, so I'd really appreciate if any of you guys makes a donation (via the donation button next to the stories). The stories will also be available in softcover -- at which point, they will no longer be posted to read for free. So read up people and please feel free to share your comments!