So today is usually where you'd see a book review from me, and clearly this is not a book review. It's going to be a very quick post telling you what's up. The short form is that I'm having trouble balancing my time between my new job and the rest of my life at the … Continue reading Time and Management Thereof
Month: June 2017
So as a general rule, I've always considered that quality is worth more than quantity in the writing world. If you have a hundred books out but all of them tell the exact same story and are garbage, then I don't care that you might have fifty best-sellers. But take authors like Harper Lee, who … Continue reading I Write Books to Conquer This World
I'm not sure where I wanted to go with this, and I don't know where in any established time line this might take place, but it's Celita and Tarenthal from QUEST TO KARANTIRI, sometime in her first visit to the elven woods. As usual, prompt is taken from Lyn Thorne-Alder's Thimbleful Thursday, and I love … Continue reading FICTION FRIDAY: Thimbleful Thursday – Ugly Duckling
I did it! I finally read the damn thing! Everyone should be very proud of me. It's an interesting departure for me, given that my only experience before this with Wendig's writing (that isn't a tweet or blog post) was the Heartland trilogy. And Miriam Black and her world aren't even remotely close to that … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: BLACKBIRDS by Chuck Wendig
I figure we'll talk personal today. It's a fitting day to do such. Besides, a lot has happened since the last time I updated you. (Since I can't remember when that was.) So today is my parents' wedding anniversary, which is awesome. 🙂 They've been married 35 years, which especially as I look around at … Continue reading State of the Rion
This one is over word count. I had a good cut-off point and my characters viscerally rebelled against me. I don't like cutting them off if I don't have to. As always, this is pulled from Lyn Thorne-Alder's Thimbleful Thursday prompts. My prompt takes place in the world of Karantiri, but it's from a similar … Continue reading FICTION FRIDAY: Thimbleful – Runs in the Family
I'm fairly certain I picked this up from a BookBub promotion probably a couple years ago now (okay, I just checked and I exaggerate, it's only been almost a year) but it's another that I have no clue why I picked it up. It's continuing on in my apparent interest in reality TV show style … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: WELCOME TO PARADISE by Rosalind James
So if you've been here for any stretch of time, you'll know that I have a very strong connection to and love of the National Novel Writing Month. (NaNoWriMo, for short.) While I love NaNo and think it's a wonderful tool for writers, I know that it's not necessarily for everyone. Some people don't work … Continue reading You Missed It, The Point Was About Three Miles Back
I've had the song of the same name from Rocky Horror stuck in my head ever since I saw the prompt. Now just to write something that isn't a boy toy in gold lamé hot pants. Again, this prompt is pulled from the ever-talented Lyn Thorne-Alder's Thimbleful Thursday posts, which are truly designed to save … Continue reading FICTION FRIDAY: Thimbleful – Sword of Damocles
I am not lost... 