Author Archives: Gavin Seim
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
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
A Very Simple Note
Dear writers, it is no longer revolutionary or daring to have a culture that is so “enlightened” or “loving” that they have sex with anyone and anything whenever they feel like it. In fact, it never was. College kids and … Continue reading
Trauma, Hollywood style
You know how people die in movies? They get shot or stabbed in the chest, grunt, fall down, and summarily expire. That irritates me. I was watching The Magnificent Seven the other day (Good movie, by the way), and at … Continue reading
Writing Great Dialogue & Five Tips for Making it Crackle.
By Nathan Seim At first, writing dialogue was extremely difficult for me. No matter what I wrote, when I actually went back to read it, I found what I had written was usually lifeless, dry, and boring. I thought for … Continue reading
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
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
A Short Story – Sixth Floor, 2AM | 2011 WOTR First Place Fiction.
This is the first of our growing collection of short stories to actually get posted on our journal. There will be more to come. We also have plans to start posting them on Kindle and beyond. This is the story … Continue reading
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