Author Archives: R. Doering

I’m working on a collection of stories and am almost done with it. All the big things are done, and the little typos and dropped balls have come to haunt me like a pernicious puppy, all nips and bites and growls. Here is a misspelled word, there is a wrong page number, and so on.Continue reading “Nips and Bites”

I’ve started reading Reservation Blues, by a Native American writer named Sherman Alexie. I read it some years ago and enjoyed it then, so I’ve come back to it to take another look. Of the dozen or so books of his that I have read, this is my favorite. Native people, magic, and funny charactersContinue reading “Autumn Blues”

I have started working on a longer short story, simply because most of my stories are the same length and I wanted to try something longer. So far so good, and I am crawling forward. I have read books on writing by writers whose works I respect, and they all say ‘do what works forContinue reading “A Longer Story”

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