Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Yesterday I posted an overview of my experience game mastering and being a staff member at PortCon and how that ties into my life as writer. To surmise, I had a blast and it was a very fulfilling endeavor for... Continue Reading →
Writing Fantasy: My Writing Rituals and Habits
jbull85 asked: …How do you settle into writing? Do you listen to music or something? Okay, before I even start I will say that these questions and the answers I will give are by their very nature subjective. What works for me will not work for everyone. Probably not even for most everyone, because writing... Continue Reading →
Writing Fantasy: Where I Fall on the Mohs Scale of Magical Hardness
Some fantasy authors feel the need to go into “the rules” of the magic they write about. It’s limits, the can and can’t do’s of it, whatever. I particularly see a great deal of that in fantasy fiction written in the last few decades and suspect it comes from a strong Dungeons & Dragons, role-playing... Continue Reading →
Twenty Fifteen: The Year That Didn’t Stop Me
It’s the last day of Twenty Fifteen, and a lot of retrospective blogs are popping up in my feed. To them I say “Happy New Year!” as well. I wish them the best while I look back at what the past year has brought me. Twenty Fifteen came with some big challenges. It has been... Continue Reading →
Happy Thorsgiving!
Thorsgiving... Because what could a Viking not love about Thanksgiving? Feasting? Aye! Drinking? A mighty aye! Clan Bonding? Aye! Clan Feuding? Say that over here pig-dog! Enjoying Violent Contact Sports? (Viking hits you with turkey leg...) Restful Odin-Sleep Afterwards? Zzzzzzz! Plotting Raids to Seize Loot from the Merchants the Next Day? Rarrrrrrrr!!!! Happy Thorsgiving Everyone!
How to Install a New Mailbox in 65 Easy Steps
1- Purchase a large, stately mailbox to replace the rusty, dilapidated one almost falling over outside the ninety five year old house you have recently acquired. Let sit for six weeks to ferment while you make the house suitable for human habitation. 2- Finding that you have a few spare minutes on an early afternoon... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: July 8th, 2015
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! My Independence Day weekend got off to a good start, even after working a surprise eleven hour shift when I had planned to have the Friday off. The holiday itself on Saturday turned out really well: I had time to... Continue Reading →
Captain America: Why He Is My Hero
Listen to me -- all of you out there! You were told by this man -- your hero -- that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people -- that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine... Continue Reading →
11 Questions and 11 Blogs
Gabriel Penn of Gabriel to Earth awarded me a Liebster Award! Thanks, Dude! Now, the Liebster is very much like the Creative Blogger Award which I was awarded in April; it’s not an official award with a committee or anything... It’s more of an acknowledgement from another blogger that they think your blog is cool... Continue Reading →
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