Self-Stalking, Part 2

Welcome to another installment of Self-Stalking, where I point out all the links to stuff about me that I find while wasting time on google that I should be spending writing. Granted, google alerts has made it a lot easier to do this, but you’d be surprised nonetheless at the time I can waste with […]

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Voices

I’ve got voices in my head. We all do, really. The speak to us silently as we try to understand the world around us. When I meet people, I always try to figure out what makes them tick. What their motivations are, what goals they’ve set, and what they are willing to do to reach […]

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Worldbuilding

I don’t really have anything to blog about, but I feel like posting anyway and I’m tired of working. So this will be kind of a free-flowing stream of thought. I only wrote 1381 words today, but that small word count required a considerable amount of work, as I finally tunneled my way out of […]

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Viral

A couple of months ago, I posted a question to the site of my good friend and copyeditor extraordinaire, Deanna Hoak. The question was about interrobangs, which is the practice of using a combination of exclamation point and question mark in order to denote a question that is shouted, or otherwise intensified. Some people hate […]

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Rap

I’ve been thinking about my “rap” about The Painted Man. This is something I need to practice quite a bit as my publication date nears, and I need to become something of a salesman in addition to an author. I’ve never been good at sales. Or summaries. I’m a long story kind of guy, and […]

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