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What he said...
Today, I noticed a sad thing. Today, I saw a Christian act with anger, hatred and arrogant disregard for the loss of others in the light of a tragedy. And perhaps that might not have been so depressing had this been the person I knew. Or perhaps, if they had been speaking with their own voice.
The reason this is sad is because the man I know really ( Read more... ) -
On piracy and justification.
Recently, a very active online pirate has been discovered. He’s been offering thousands of books for free downloading, and is very adept at justifying his particular brand of copyright violation. Some people are actually buying some of his arguments, mostly because he uses terms that mean something completely different from the context in which he ( Read more... ) -
Write like someone left the gate open...
Anyone who has perused my facebook page occasionally knows the general trend I follow. Live your life the way you're called to. Live a life outside the ordinary. Do what you love. Over the past couple of days, I've learned that living (and writing) like someone left the gate open has unexpected rewards ( Read more... ) -
Side projects
I learned something very interesting over the last few days. People seem to love polls. Even if they don't take them, or if they've already taken them, they come back to check on them. Once I put my poll up on my website, my traffic spiked like the punch bowl at prom. And ya know, I like them, too. Not just for the increase in traffic, either. I ( Read more... ) -
Page of Swords update & Side Projects poll
Page of Swords is off to the editor, and then, it will be time for the usual hacking and slashing that accompanies the book creation process. Wow, how much fun is that gonna be?
During the editing process, the story is, of course, pored over several times. Studied. Dissected. Reassembled. Brought to life through an esoteric and painful process that ( Read more... ) -
Page of Swords update
Yesterday, I put over 5,000 words to page, in spite of the best efforts of the new Angry Birds app on FB to distract me from finishing Page of Swords. Chance is seconds away from the climactic scene, but I had to stop so I could pick it up and write straight through the whole thing uninterrupted. Today is going to be a very LOOOOOOONG day at work. ( Read more... ) -
True Believers
So, in the past I’ve commented on the concept of the True Believer, the kind of fan every writer needs. You know, the reader who spends as much time learning about the world you created as you did creating it? The reader who asks questions that you never thought of, and notices details that you forgot. The one who asks you questions that make you ( Read more... ) -
VisionCon XX (2012)
Some thoughts on VisionCon.
For about ten hours during VisionCon here in Springfield Missouri, I was given a spot at a guest table. I was privileged to have shared it with several other talented people. The con staff were very nice about scheduling, some even apologizing that the table space was limited so that we had to rotate through it (the rest ( Read more... ) -
The Missing
Imagine if one day, New York City was suddenly devoid of human life. Canyons of steel, concrete and glass, eerily silent, with only the wind moving along the streets of the city that never sleeps. Eight million people, gone. Nobody knows where they are, or what happened to them. Was it aliens? Was it some sort of conspiracy? Zombies? Imagine the ( Read more... )
