Things have been a little quiet around here. Let me see if I can explain why: I don’t want to imply that when you have a small human to take care of, you can’t get anything else done, but I (at least) tend to let non-essential systems atrophy. Navel-gazing (which, I will be honest, is [...]
Posts under ‘Musing’
Letters to my Kids: What I Think About Space, Science, and Traveling Faster than the Speed of Light
The world is a crazy place. Unexpected things happen all the time, and while I may plan to be around to have the Important Conversations with my kids, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow. Or today. I could choke to death on the ham sandwich I make for lunch. These things happen. There [...]
Letters to my Kids: What I think happens when we die.
The world is a crazy place. Unexpected things happen all the time, and while I may plan to be around to have the Important Conversations with my kids, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow. Or today. Hell, I could choke to death on the ham sandwich I make for lunch. These things happen. [...]
Revisting, briefly, the source of my Publishing Predictions
As I’ve already said, all of my predictions about publishing come from observing other industries that have recently gone digital (in some cases, unwillingly). From that, I’ve projected things like the demise of chain bookstores; their failure slowed but not stopped by stubborn publishers clinging to DRM in a vain effort to make digital books [...]
lufknahT
I’m an instinctive stoic. Let me tell you what I’m thankful for. I’m thankful there’s a fifteen foot trench in the floor of my basement, because it means we’re truly committed to making Kaylee’s new bedroom a reality. I’m thankful there are no proper supports for the wall that trench is next too, even though there [...]
Genre-Appropriate Ninjas
So awhile back (damned if I know exactly when), Amy Spalding (who’s one of the coolio authors Kate represents) muttered something about being stuck on a scene she was writing. I, feeling helpful, said, “Dude. Ninjas.” And she was like, “Wait, what?” And I was like, “Ninjas. They attack. Problem solved. The end. You’re welcome.” [...]
Midwestern Rules
All right, nanowrimo people: it’s that time again. The first five days were kind of wild and crazy — you didn’t really know what was going on in the story — the characters were sort of running around going “Look what I can do! No, me! Look!” and you let them have their head and [...]
The Life of a Furtive Writer
You know what’s a funny sounding word, no matter what the context? Furtive. Furtive. Furrtive. FURTive. FURT. Heh. Yeah. I’m twelve. ANYWAY. Over on terribleminds, Chuck dropped some great advice on how he fights the distraction monkey of himself. As I mentioned yesterday, we are our own worst enemy when it comes to getting anything [...]
