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What a blessing it is to have an awesome teacher. My schooling was riddled with fantastic teachers that I enjoyed and appreciated at the time, but it isn’t until many years later, now myself a teacher, that I truly recognize the impact they had on me. Let’s be honest, I don’t think a single one […]
Where do the people of Spire City go for their banking? Probably not here if they have the steampunk equivalent of a good credit score… But if not, this is the place to go. This is one of the ads that would have crossed multiple columns of the Spire …
I reached a milestone today that I felt warranted a quick post. After reworking my story early last year, I emerged with an outline for a 5-part story, with parts 1-3 roughly correlating to my earlier outlined material, and parts 4&5 rendering a proper conclusion, which was lacking in the early drafts. Today, I finished […]
Doing print copies through KDP’s print-on-demand service (as with Createspace previously) always gives you this moment of wondering how the final product will look. You can examine the pdfs all you want, launch the viewer, order proof copies. But until…
Anatomy of an edit, different story: second (thousandth) verse, same as the first.I’m working through short story of mine now, Written In Stone … and I use the term “short story” loosely, because it originally clocked in a bit over 10k words.&n…
Lots of talk about ads today… Here are some very different kinds of advertising.It was roughly 11 years ago when I began the pre-writing for the Spire City episodes, dreaming up the characters, the effects of their terrible infections, and details of…
Blink and you (… or at least I!) miss it: my story “Chains” is out in the current issue of Kzine! Check it out: Kzine (Issue 23)
For Christmas, I got Elle King’s new album, Shake The Spirit. I’m a big fan of Elle King; I like to describe her music as “Wild West Rock.” The thematics and lyrics remind me of the roughest parts of an old-school western. (The two so…
If you’ve been watching this blog space (which is a bit like watching grass grow, only less organic and more purple), you may have noticed that it’s been quieter of late, fewer posts. That’s because I haven’t as much time to write. In fact,…
A number of years ago, I ran across an article that confirmed a few unformed ideas that had been floating around in my mind. “Why You Should Read Books You Hate” by Pamela Paul solidified a concept that I’d loosely held for some time. I should not simply read books, articles, essays, poetry, etc. that […]