Given that my focus was on helping a friend deal with the sudden death of a parent this week, I was happy with whatever renewal my writing could provide or progress I could make with it. With that in mind, I got a lot done considering the circumstances: I finished reworking the fifth and sixth... Continue Reading →
A Coat Around the Shoulders
On Monday my close friend Jessica, who I have mentioned here before as half of my “alpha reader” duo, lost her mother to a sudden and completely unexpected death. She was so shaken by the chaos of the unfolding event that I drove the hour long trip to her family home with her as a... Continue Reading →
New Fiction! “The Visitor” is up on Aethereal Engines!
I posted some new fiction today on Aethereal Engines and I’m reblogging it here! I’m still in the middle of working and revising my Unsundered novella-novel, but I was inspired earlier this week to create a short story called “The Visitor” for a writers challenge. It’s a standalone short fantasy story and a quick read... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 26th 2014: Insert Name and Title Here
I'm still revising, editing, cutting and moving things about this week on The Lost Tomb of Omo! This type of work is hard to quantify in word count and I don’t have the desire or time to setup some methodology to track and relay it. So you’ll just need to trust me when I say,... Continue Reading →
Constructed Nouns in Fantasy: An Orc by Any Other Name Would Smell Just as Bad
Character and place names in fantasy fiction can be a headache. A friend of mine once quipped that the surefire way to write a great fantasy novel was “to have a dark-lord, a wizard and make every fifth word unpronounceable.” Sadly, it was J. R. R. Tolkien who got the ball rolling on this trend,... Continue Reading →

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