Writer. Hacker. Mixologist. I was the one you met at the rear of the train -- the one staring at the sunset as though it were problematic.
I’ve been a bit lax in keeping this page up to date, but here we go: My poem, “Upon the Climbing of a Topless Tower,” appeared in Silver Blade in August. It’s a villanelle (so, 19 lines)–but don’t think poorly of it, please. My poem, “That is not what I meant at all,” is part … More Poetry news!
Three news items for today: MY BATTERY IS LOW AND IT IS GETTING DARK, the new anthology from Zombies Need Brains, is now released and roaming the wild corners of the internet. My story, “Foster-Child of Silence and Slow Time,” is hiding in the middle. I’m particularly proud of this one, and I can confirm … More Anthology release (and more news)!
Amidst everything else going on in the world right now—and there’s a lot—, I can share a bit of news. First: my story “An Elicitation of Thursdays” is now online at Broken Eye Books! You’ll need to join their Patreon to read for the time being. It will appear later down the road in a … More Story News!
So the blog has been long dormant, but since what’s old is new again, I thought I would try to resuscitate it as a means of keeping tabs. If you’re new here: Hello there! My name is Brian Hugenbruch. I write things. I hope you’re here because you like to read things; if so, I … More Year in Writing (2019)
A new story of mine has just gone online at Syntax & Salt: https://syntaxandsalt.com/2020/01/01/so-you-want-to-eat-an-omnalik-starfish-by-brian-hugenbruch/ I don’t usually do flash fiction, but this one came together pretty quickly, and I hope you enjoy it. (The other stories in this issue are pretty fantastic–do check them out as well!)
First time doing one of these posts, so do bear with me. (And it’s running a bit later than usual–had to find the input window under the layer of dust that’d accrued here). *ahem* I had one eligible Short Story come out this year: “Or, the Modern Psyche” (published June 2019 by Zombies Need Brains … More Award Eligibility 2019
I haven’t done a “the year in writing” post in previous years, mostly, because those years have mostly been the same: “wrote a fair number of words, and not much else happened.” I was either not writing enough, or not submitting enough. Despite my participation in NaNoWriMo approaching legal US driving age, my word counts … More 2018 Writing Progress Bar
I’ve been a novel-writer for as along as I can remember. I devoured fantasy books as a kid, even in kindergarten. It wasn’t an uncommon weekend where I’d knock off a 300-page book. (Took slightly longer when Robert Jordan reinvented the genre as doorstops.) So when I made the leap from reader to writer, from … More The compression of time.
The question caught me off-guard. I’d been practicing the craft of writing for nearly thirty years at that point. I’d started thirteen manuscripts. Finished ten. Had approached nearly a million words committed to page. And yet: no one had asked that question of me before. Least of all, me. What kind of writer do you … More What kind of writer do you want to be?
In my years as a writer, I’ve written stories and novels on: Construction paper Notebook paper Post-it notes and index cards X386 spreadsheets DOS word processing programs Notepad and Wordpad Raw HTML (see Notepad) Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, Apple Pages But my Twitter feed remains agog with tools like Scrivener and similar — programs designed for … More I’d prefer not to. (The Scrivening.)
