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Whitmire and the Rally Car – A Short Story by the Brothers Seim

Last Fall I (Gavin) took a trip with my friend and mentor Ken Whitmire. A man from whom much of my knowledge as an image maker has been inspired. It was quite a trip and after making it home in … Continue reading

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Making Characters Sing… Figuratively

By the Brothers Seim: We’ve learned that  creating a natural character is one of the more challenging aspects in writing. We do struggle with it at times, but have discovered some things along the way. Let Them Grow: Characters tend … Continue reading

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Freedoms Eve – A Short Story by The Brothers Seim.

Space. Another frontier. Wait, hasn’t something like that been done. Let’s start over… This is the first Science Fiction short Nathan and I have written. The world it’s set in actually comes from a very popular (very fun) game called … Continue reading

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Malefactor. A Short Story.

Nathan and I are past due to post a story. The book is making good progress and we’re really excited about it, but in the meantime we really enjoy the satisfaction of making and sharing short stories. It challenges us … Continue reading

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We won first place in the Write on the River 2011 competition.

Got an exciting phone call tonight from Susan at Write on the River. Nathan and I won first place for best fiction, at the 2011 annual WOTR writers competition. We’re both really stoked. The story is a short piece called … Continue reading

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Writing Competitions

This year Nathan and I will be entering our first writing competition. As I’ve talked about on the FB page, we’ve been learning a lot by doing short stories and we though it would be great to put some of … Continue reading

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Writers Couch Maps.

We’ve added something to the site that I think will be really useful. Wc Maps is a Google map of writing conferences and workshops all over. It’s not fully fleshed out, but we’re working across the US and then beyond. … Continue reading

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On Learning to Write Better.

by Gavin Seim: There’s something I’ve learned from being a photographer that applies perfectly to writing and that’s learning. I’m twenty five years old and I’ve been serious about photography for about 13 of those years. Looking back on that … Continue reading

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