Here we are in the new year, and needless to say, 2015 is a year I’m very excited about. Mostly for the hoverboards and flying cars, which I’m assured will […]
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That Was 40: A Pretty Good Trip Around the Sun
So, today is my 41st birthday. And in the end, 40 was a pretty good year. A quick recap: “Jump the Black” was published in Rayguns Over Texas. With the […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Integrating the Top Down and the Bottom Up
I’ll fully admit, the worldbuilding work I’ve done for the Banshee space-opera verse has was done in a strange way. Namely, I did a combination of top-down and bottom-up building. […]
Read moreThe Writer’s Brain In Constant Motion
So, right now, I’m putting the “finishing” touches on the manuscript for Thorn of Dentonhill before sending it to my editor. On top of that, I’ve been charging full-throttle into […]
Read moreWhere is the next Star Trek?
Something occurred to me recently: we haven’t had a successful show about humanity’s future in outer space on television since 2005, and that with a very broad definition of “successful”. […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Aliens and Daily Rhythms of Life
So: get up in the morning, shower, dress, breakfast. Commute to work, work throughout the morning, take some time for lunch, back to work until the end of the evening. […]
Read moreBanshee, and the Slow Cooker Process: 2013 in Review, Part Three
The other big milestone, in terms of what I’ve been writing, that I hit in 2013 was getting solidly underway on Banshee. Banshee is a project that’s been stewing in […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: Fanfic of Yourself
I was thinking about one of my trunked projects, Crown of Druthal, as well as the process of novel midwifery that has brought Banshee to the point where it is […]
Read moreTools of the Writer: Growing with the times
You know, way, way back in the day– by which I mean high school– I did my writing on WordPerfect, using the 8088 PC-clone that I had at the time. […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: Clavicle and other crucial word choices
This week’s work on Banshee brought me to an interesting point, somewhat unintentionally. In brief, my main character, Lt. Samantha Kengle, was injured on a mission (a nasty creature managed […]
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