Welcome
Welcome to Words Deferred. I’m Sam Johnston. I write software by day, and fiction by night.
I post about the art and craft of writing fiction. I also post serial fiction – novels, one bite at a time – and take you behind the scenes to look at my writing process.
Recent Words
(New blog posts every Monday morning. New serial fiction or writing process journals every Friday morning.)
Razor Mountain Development Journal #28
This is part of my ongoing series where I’m documenting the development of my serial novel, Razor Mountain. Be forewarned, there are spoilers ahead! You can start from the beginning here. Last Time I worked on the chapter 17 and 18 summaries (and also identified some things I may want to go back and improve). […]
Weekly Microfiction
Last week, I talked about a little experiment I’m doing — a very little experiment! As a slightly silly way to get back into writing short stories, I started putting out microfiction on Twitter, @DeferredWords. Every morning for the past week, I’ve been posting a story in a single tweet, and I’m going to keep […]
Reference Desk #10 — The Story Engine
The Story Engine is a card-based tool to generate endless, semi-random writing prompts. It’s is billed as a tool or multiplayer game to aid in writing fiction, playing tabletop RPGs, or just to be played on its own. It started out in 2019 as one of those Kickstarter projects that caught fire and got fifteen […]
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