I have recently begun telling people that I am trying to see just how thin I can spread myself.  I have encountered a truly interesting sensation in the past few months... it's almost a kind of pressure, not unlike the mysterious force that slammed me mercilessly into the compulsion to spend stupid amounts of money recording an album just a couple ( Read more... )

I have uploaded the second chapter of Shadow of the Spire, posted in two sections.  As the story begins, we spend a little time with Cara Landry as she tries to reassociate the fuzzy memories of her younger years with the more immediate needs of today.  She attempts to relax and spend time with her son, getting to know him again after two years of ( Read more... )

So I've now managed to upload the entirety of chapter one for your reading enjoyment.  Even with minimal feedback, it's been a fairly rewarding experience thus far.  I feel like I've taken an important step toward sharing my art, and I hope that I can generate a little bit of buzz.

Shadow of the Spire is a dark modern fantasy tale, with heroes who ( Read more... )

You know that story I've been working on for... oh, I don't know how long now.  I've never been one to get hung up on a single idea... The songs I recorded on my first CD were mostly new, rather than rehashing material I'd been writing for years.  My game ideas tend to appear and evolve quickly and with a lot of momentum, but I'm always ready for a ( Read more... )

Shootin' from the hip today... let's see what I can come up with:

• MUSIC:  Okay. So the CD is done. I have a master, and the artwork is now very nearly ready to roll... but now the money has suffered a hit.  Our air conditioner broke last week - or more specifically, the motor in our furnace shuffled off it's mortal coil and left the air conditioner ( Read more... )

At just over 71,000 words, I've effectively decided to wrap up "part one" of my novel.  There are a couple of reasons for this ( Read more... )

My story's starting to get old.

Not in the sense that I'm beginning to grow weary of it... nor in the sense that it is out of date in any fashion.  It's just that I started on the book just over three years ago, and I'm nowhere near completion.  It just grew legs... I'm at over 70,000 words now.  I started with 3 perspectives - two major, one ( Read more... )

roulette_'s confessed to some rather significant inspiration issues.

For those of you who aren't acquainted with my beloved, she is a writer.  A good one.  She writes character with the kind of completion that makes you feel cheated when a passage comes to a close.  It's refreshing.  I have to admit to a certain disassociation with much of the content of ( Read more... )

Okay... so I've hit a dead end.  Not entirely, I suppose, but enough of one to keep me from accomplishing anything significant in the past few months.

My manuscript is over 60,000 words now, and I've reached the 21st chapter of my story.  I've developed what I feel to be a unique kind of tale, with a liberal blend of fantasy and modern day horror ( Read more... )

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