Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... Continue Reading →
Savage Warriors by Nicolas Gekko
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WIP-it Wednesday: May 11th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I received my first alpha-reader feedback on The Unicorn Hunters and it was positive… Looks like I hit my emotional targets in the piece. :-) Proofreading has left me with cleanup and editing to do before I send it off... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: Red Riding Hood by Aaron Nakahara
Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... Continue Reading →
Short Comic: ‘Lady Tilda and the Dragon’ by Sara Goetter
A wonderful little tale by Sara Goetter that I loved and wanted to share! Check out Sara Goetter's Art Blog on Tumblr!
WIP-it Wednesday: May 4th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I finally feel like I’m getting the hang of this full-time writing thing! Sticking to the revised writing schedule I started last week, I exceeded my daily goal of a thousand words of fiction each day… often by a third... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: Shrew by Lane Brown
Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... 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 →
WIP-it Wednesday: April 27th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Last week started tough. My writing progress was slow, and I was just beginning to get the hang of my wife working a late second-shift that really upended how I focus and write. However, because she’s trying to recover from... Continue Reading →

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