About Wind Tunnel Dreams

In the fall of 2007, I found myself completely and utterly stuck. I’d meant to debut my webcomic around then – but, following months of difficulty, my original artist left the project, leaving me adrift. My meticulously-laid plans were in ruins, and I didn’t know what to do.

And I wasn’t writing, and not-writing was driving me crazy.

My friend Maggie Hogarth was just finishing an internet-based writing project, the Aphorisms of Kherishdar – she allowed people to sponsor her flash fiction. Warren Ellis had just started posting flash fiction, too, with the intent of doing so daily. The two ideas merged in my brain, and I set myself a fairly crazy goal:
I would write a short-short story every day during the month of November. Every short story would be inspired by readers’ prompts. I would post a PayPal button with every storybit – an internet tip jar.
It was crazy. But it worked. Wind Tunnel Dreams jump-started my creativity, forcing me to stretch my imagination in ways I’d never considered – the prompts triggered classic fantasy as well as urban fantasy, old-school pulp sci-fi beside cyberpunk, even some horror and mystery. For a month, I pried my writerbrain open and just tried to stay out of the way of whatever popped out. And it paid for my cat’s unanticipated and expensive surgery.
People liked it. I liked it. So I decided to continue - in a way. I would go crazy doing this every day of the year! But one week out of the month...
Throughout 2008, I expanded the original stories, wrote new ones, and collaborated with friends.

WindTunnelDreams.com currently lies fallow - I've taken the stories off to see which I can work with and which were not up to snuff. People wo sponsored WTD in 2007 and 2008 get a great big .PDF with all of the stories. You can also order chapbooks - I'll have the links for that up soon.

I hope you enjoy the stories; if you do, I hope you'll tip the storyteller, as this is pretty much my sole source of income right now. :)