It can be difficult to start over. The process consumes both time and energy, something that an individual may not have in abundance. It can even be frightening. Yet it’s something we have to do on a regular if not constant basis, to continue on our journey from where we are to where we want… Continue reading Writer Report: New Beginnings
Write When You Can't
Courtesy Floating Robes I’m going to tell you a secret. You might already know what I’m going to say, but it’ll be said anyway, as it needs to be repeated. Come on, get closer. Don’t be shy. You ready? Here it is: Being a writer is not about publication. Being a writer is about one… Continue reading Write When You Can't
Flash Fiction: The Ten-Year Potion
Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction challenges return! This week: Roll For Title. Shelby couldn’t stop hearing her doctor give the diagnosis. Six months. Six months of surgery and chemo and radiation and living in hospitals and shitting into bags. Her first appointment was in two days, and she was taking today to find something, anything else,… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Ten-Year Potion
First Impressions: Retro Shooter Redux
Back in the day, graphical fidelity on PCs was not really up to rendering 3D environments within simulations. The best they could do back in the mid-90s was some polygons stacked together to make landscapes to fly over in jet simulators. However, clever folks at studios like Apogee and id Software could fool the eye… Continue reading First Impressions: Retro Shooter Redux
Guess Who's Back?
After nearly three years, I’ve returned to Azeroth. I’m playing World of Warcraft again. And, to be honest, I think I’ve come back at a good time. It can be difficult to convey story through the medium of video games in the best of circumstances. What I mean is, video games have the potential to… Continue reading Guess Who's Back?
New Year's Changes
You may have noticed that I haven’t posted lists of resolutions or any of the other traditional things that ring in the new year. You may have also noticed that I’m having a bit of a struggle maintaining the old schedule I used to have of what gets posted when. There are reasons for both… Continue reading New Year's Changes
Continuing Education
A rather large book arrived from Amazon yesterday. It’s a prep book for the Graduate Record Examination, or GRE. I rented it with the intent of taking the daunting test, and returning to graduate school. The question is, once I have a Masters of Fine Arts in, for example, Creative Writing, what will I do… Continue reading Continuing Education
Writer Report: Something Old, Something New
It isn’t easy for a writer to realize, completely and utterly, that an idea of theirs isn’t going to work. This is especially the case if it’s an idea they’ve had for years. You can make a good story out of just about anything, it’s true. But if too many characters are in need of… Continue reading Writer Report: Something Old, Something New
Death and Deadlines
To me, deadlines are more inevitable than taxes. And, since I apparently have some new ones to meet, the writer report I was planning on posting today is getting bumped. I really have to think hard about what I want out of this year.
Plotting the Year Ahead
Jealousy is an ugly emotion. And yet, I experience it more often than I’d care to admit. Looking back on not just 2013 but many years before, I’m recognizing patterns in my behavior and my habits. I know it may be a bit late in the game to be doing that, and a lot of… Continue reading Plotting the Year Ahead
