Warning: This post contains some strong language. Hello! Since I haven't posted anything in so long and I am struggling to navigate life while also working on my stories, I have come up with something ARK-related here, in order to keep my website relevant and to get people to keep thinking about my upcoming writing project. This is my first-ever post as my Badass Bolls persona, meaning it is less formal and not as professional. There's also bound to be some cursing and some

Hello, everyone. I know it has been a very long time since I last made a post. I have been very busy with moving to a new home, and just today, I finally got my Internet working after having no Internet for a week. I also wanted to quickly add that I would like to at least get out "just a snippet" of the new ARK story sometime in May or June 2026, maybe a bit later if life gets in the way for me again. It will be my first new material since 2021, and I am just very excite

Original Completion Date: June 28, 2009 Well, I've finally posted it...one of my very, very old stories I made back when I was just a kid! At one point last year, I was digging through the attic at my parents' house and found a bunch of blank books that have my very own words and illustrations on them. These handwritten books are one-of-a-kind and brought back so many memories for me! When I was a kid, I used to love getting blank books from the store, writing my very own

Hello, everyone! I'm Casey Bolls, the founder of Bolls Productions! My tagline for this site is "Word Media for Everyone" because I am hoping to get back into writing and share it with the public. I call everything I post on this site "word media" because I will be writing and posting a variety of different things: short fiction, long fiction, poetry, blog posts, past writing, present writing, research papers, blog posts, etc. Only problem is, I haven't officially written

Original Completion Date: March 7, 2019 This is the third poem I wrote in my Spring 2019 poetry class. This type of poem is called a couplet, which means there are two lines in each stanza. I was assigned this type of poem in February, and in March, we each had to pick one of our poems to revise. I chose to revise A Forest in Flames because I felt like this was the easiest poem for me to make changes to at the time. I was inspired to write a poem based on t

Original Completion Date: February 26, 2019 Many of us know what it's like to drive in the Bay Area...especially in rainy weather! This poem describes what that was like for me. I was driving home from a friend's house and it was a little scary, but I thankfully didn't get into an accident. This poem is called a quadruplet, which means there are four lines in each stanza. Here's what Professor Gubernat had to say about it: "This clearly struck a cho

Original Completion Date: February 19, 2019 A Nap on the Beach is one of the most difficult poems I ever had to write. This form of poetry is known as a metric poem, which means that the words must stick to a particular beat. For instance, this poem maintains a 4-beat rhythm. If you read it carefully as if it were a song, you should be able to notice it. My professor found it impressive that I located the setting of this poem in a specific time and place an

Original Completion Date: February 20, 2019 This story was an exercise that challenged us to create a cohesive and compelling plot. Plot is exactly what you think it is: the events that fold within the story from beginning to end. There are many helpful sources on Google that show plot charts and other information on how to write a gripping narrative. Sunday Drive is a cautionary tale about what can happen when the wrong choices are made. Professor Gutierrez en

Original Completion Date: February 13, 2019 This short story assignment had me focus on character. It's important to get your audience to be interested in your characters by clearly showing their emotions, personality traits, thoughts, actions, dialogue, and appearance. The best characters in stories are those whom your audience can relate to. For this story, I wanted to create a character who was socially awkward, and I also wanted to make him the kind of gu

Original Completion Date: February 6, 2019 This is the first short story that I made for my Beginning Fiction Workshop class during the Spring 2019 semester. Each short story had to be around 2-3 pages, and each short story assignment had to focus on a specific aspect of fiction writing. This one focuses on showing. Many writers are familiar with the phrase "show, don't tell." Readers are generally more interested in a story that shows the actions and emotions rathe

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