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 →
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 →
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 →
WIP-it Wednesday: April 20th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Things have been getting into gear this week as I make more adjustments to writing full-time. There has been a lot of planning and retooling going on. Concurrent with this big change in my life, my wife also started a... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: The Protector by Rudy Siswanto
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 →
Virgin and Unicorn by Domenichino (1581 – 1641)
A picture I found in doing my research for my short story 'The Unicorn Hunters'. My unicorns in the tale aren't like white horses with a horn as they are most commonly depicted nowadays. Instead, I've gone for a look that's a little closer to some medieval stylings of them. They are deer-sized, with hairy... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: April 13th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! This week has had a number of different challenges for me, most revolving around adjustment, change and preparatory work. As I announced last week, I’ve decided to make a go at writing full-time. It’s an enormous life and work style... Continue Reading →
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