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on January 31
Greg Stolze
Posted project update #10Another year, another project.
Post CommentGreetings, supporters of "These People Mean Nothing To Each Other." I've started fundraising another short story, and like "These People..." it operates heavily on what's unsaid and not shown. Unlike "These People..." it's not a gritty crime story. Instead, it's called "Shrimp" and it's about the martial arts.
I've been studying jujitsu for years now, and I wanted to tell stories about the sorts of fascinating people I've met in a small suburban dojo. "Shrimp" is the first such story I've put up for funding, and it's not about badasses fighting for glory and survival. It's about people coping with divorce and child-rearing. They just happen to be studying the deadly arts while they do it.
If you're curious, click the link and check it out. Thanks.
-G.
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on January 31
Greg Stolze
Posted project update #5Hello, "Emily" supporters...
Post CommentI hope you liked one of my stories about normal people in emotional torment. If you did, may I draw your attention to another one? "Shrimp," isn't about future technologies, the way "Emily Speaks" is. Instead, it touches on another one of my obscure, longtime fascinations -- in this case, it's the Japanese martial art jujitsu. But rather than take off on a wild flight of fantasy with it, this time I'm making it as realistic as I can. This is not a story about people being badasses and fighting for their life with superior joint-torquing skill. Instead, it's about the people who study the art while slogging through the everyday challenges of divorce and child-raising. Here's a quote.
“She’s a teenage girl,” Ellis said flatly. “If she doesn’t go off to college confident in her strangling, I’ll consider it my biggest failure as a father.”
If you're curious about Ellis, where he's going and where he came from, check out "Shrimp."
-G.
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on January 13
Greg Stolze
Posted project update #15Another Martial Arts Story? Oh Boy!
Post CommentIf you enjoyed Regret, With Math, you might also be interested in Shrimp, my current Kickstarter project. Like Regret, it touches on ordinary people training in the traditional fighting arts of Japan, and it similarly uses an extraordinary interest as a hook for shedding new light on common problems -- in the case of Shrimp, problems of divorce and child care. It doesn't get as violent as Regret, but I hope parts of it are just as heartbreaking. Take a look!
-G.
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on January 13
Greg Stolze
Posted project update #8Did you enjoy this piece of martial arts themed literary fiction?
Post CommentIf you did, you might be interested in another piece of martial arts themed literary fiction. Shrimp is a bit longer than Two Things... which gives me the space to dig a bit deeper into character. Have a look, watch the video, browse the linocut art. Why not?
-G.
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on January 12
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on January 12
Greg Stolze launched a project
Shrimp by Greg Stolze
If I get $330, I'll release a 3,300 word story to everyone. "Shrimp" is about kids, divorce and the martial arts.
- $330 funding goal
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3days left
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on December 20
Greg Stolze
backed a project
A Road Paved in Iron: A Voodoo Western Dime novel by Don Corcoran
One part haunting fantasy, one part historical fiction, and one part spaghetti western.
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102% funded $3,575 pledged
- 57 backers
- Funded Jan 15, 2012
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on December 6
Greg Stolze
backed a project
Fireside Magazine No. 1 by Brian White
Many genres. No limits. Just good stories.
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107% funded $7,017 pledged
- 254 backers
- Funded Jan 07, 2012
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on December 5
Greg Stolze
commented on a project updateOh, and http://www.gregstolze.com/fiction_library/epubs/emily.epub has it in ePub format. -G.
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on December 5
Greg Stolze
commented on a project updateOh, and for e-readers, you can get it as an ePub at www.gregstolze.com/fiction_library/epubs/emily.epub -G.
Greg Stolze
Aurora, IL
Greg Stolze writes stories, designs games, illustrates and lays out much of his own work and has a cold, paralyzing phobia of writing to literary agents.
