
Keith Hayden

"Highway 95" | A contemporary fiction short story
Discovery in desert dust.

"Descent" | A lyric poem
Surrender becomes arrival.

Welcome to "The Made-Note"!

"Brightness Falls" | A Contemporary Free Verse Poem
Light the shadowy, sacred the ordinary.
Are you still in?

"K-O-N-G Generations" | A gaming memoir verse
dat iconic ape's out

"Sad-sghetti" | A surreal poem
Not all comfort food comforts.

What being a novelist (or any creative) in 2025 means
Transcript
I’m a novelist—unfortunately, in 2025 that means that I have to do a lot of other things

"Truth Citadel" | A lyric poem
"Moonlight and sunlight form a fortress of faith."

"HERMES Protocol" | A Military Game Tech Fiction Short Story
Her AI predicted storms--but never betrayal.

Day 1 ✍🏾 📖 What's keeping you from starting your novel?

"Chase Well" | A poem
When the grail calls...
What distractions are blowing your pages away?
The LiveBeta Read Program is live!
Releasing my fear with a new program (influence my next novel)
I'm not afraid of you

"The Elements of Eloquence"
A writing craft book exploring little known literary rhetoric.