Everyone fell off to sleep, leaving Alayna the last one awake. If that is what you could call it. Awake, asleep, these terms didn’t quite apply anymore. She never needed sleep. During the day she could, and often would, fall into something that resembled a coma, but that wasn’t sleep. Those times when she fell unconscious, when she was most ( Read more... )

DOA 3 and DOA 2 hardcore came out while I was in college. I played those games a lot. I also worked on campus, and spent a lot of time in North Philadelphia.  My wife recently got a job in North Philly, not two blocks south of our university.  I’ve also been playing a lot of DOA 5 recently. When I drove her into work this morning, before coming to ( Read more... )

That is not entirely true. Making fiction is easy. You just need the right tools, a camera for visual media, a word processor, or computer for the written word, a microphone and a copy of Audacity for radio plays. You get the point. Making fiction well, that is hard. You need to learn style, prose, shot arrangement, cinematography, acting, how to ( Read more... )

Always keep your head up during play. Don’t concentrate too much on the puck, just enough to know where it is, and how you can defend it. Do not skate with your head down, and never, ever, leave your feet on a check.

You never keep your head down in hockey, if you do, that is when someone is going to come and ring your bell.  There are players, who ( Read more... )

I’m not really in freak-out mode, but I do have a drabble do next week, and I am not finished the short story that I have been working on. (Which is now technically in full novella status. Although that will change after I spend a lot of time with the editing scalpel.)  Either way I have to spend all of my downtime today looking up the myths of the ( Read more... )

I had someone close to me who reads these blatherings tell me that I’ve been being a little too heavy handed on the politicking on the blog so far.  The aforementioned person who shall remain unnamed is probably right about that. I don’t try usually try to be political on here. I find that to be an anathema of what I am trying to accomplish on this ( Read more... )

I know a lot of writers who want artists so that they can create comics. Writers come out of the woodwork it seems. Everyone has a story to tell. Very few people have the ability to tell that story in the medium that they want. If there is one thing that I learned from webcomics, it’s even if you have all of the basic components that you need to ( Read more... )

When I read or watch fiction, I found of late that try to do so in a slightly detached way.  I can’t completely detach from it, because that would ruin what I am trying to accomplish. I analyze what makes me react. What is happening to the character(s) that is making me feel, whatever I am feeling.

I’m not going to lie, it isn’t easy. I like to fall ( Read more... )