Just FYI, I have spent much of my holiday vacation working diligently to migrate articles from my old blog to the new site. You can now see posts dating back as far as 2004 in the archives. I encourage any and all new readers to check them out. The old site will no longer be […]
Slavedriver
It’s weird, asking for vacation time when you’re your own boss. I promised myself a few weeks ago to always write more each week than the week before. Last week I was up to 8046 words. Not horrible, if nothing to be impressed by. This week I was determined to hit 9K, even with Christmas […]
Progress and Tempering
Despite several major upheavals in my personal life, and a long period of adjustment to my new lifestyle, I have finally managed to get my writing back on track. Writing full time is weird. Sometimes, it feels like like it is always the weekend. Other times, it feels like it never is. I vacillate between […]
Maynard James Keenan
Fucking Maynard, man. Dude’s a genius. Hmm. You may not be familiar with what I’m talking about. Allow me to back up. Sometime in college, my friend Jeremy introduced me to a band called Tool, fronted by Maynard James Keenan, who wrote all the lyrics and music, as well. Maynard was a weird guy. He […]
Plotting vs. Prose
I think like plotting more than prose. I love, love, love making bulleted lists about a story’s plot and what is happening, putting in details about what the characters are feeling and their motivations, designing exciting moments in their lives and then arranging them in order with little “connector” points showing how they drift from […]