So life has been a torrent of things lately. Bought a house, started a new project at work, been planning vacations and summer and so on and so forth. I've been busy, and I have two books out to beta readers. So, aside from writing the occasional flash fiction bit and critiquing other works, I've … Continue reading Reaffirming My Love

Hi. It's been a while. How have you been? I'm sure that my absence has left a deep hole in your hearts. I apologize. It was never my intention to rob the world of myself. My regret runs deep, and it's not as if I've been too busy to post. Not at all. All pretentious … Continue reading Where Am I?

As anyone who has read my work before would know, I am working on a book with the draft name: Disbelief Suspended. It is a strange fantasy book, with a few elements of absurdist parody, wrapped in a 70s-era world with epic elements. Overall, though, it is a story of a young man that hasn't … Continue reading Writing Myself Into a Corner

I've been working on a manuscript for the past two months or so, and it recently got to the point that I felt like I was going in too many different directions. I was frustrated, not by the writing, but at what I had written. Finally, I sat down, and asked myself a simple question. … Continue reading Q&A

I had a lot of free time growing up. I wish I had spent more of it writing. That said, I have a demo CD for a band that I was in. I was the drummer. That was worth it. I have a video game that I created, one that I still enjoy playing occasionally. … Continue reading Basket Eggs

"You wrote a book?" asked the interested stranger. "Sure did," I said, my mind turning to all of the hours I spent tapping out words on my keyboard. The dream that I had made into reality. It was done. I had done it. And then, as I reminisced, the stranger asked a question. "What is … Continue reading A Tale of Failure, Pitches, and Hooks

It's time for a random-thought rambly mess of a post. Let's get it over with. Ever heard the term "So bad it's good"? Ever see a cash-in adaptation of a toy into a movie that was horrendous? Ever read a book that tried to mimic the style of success and fail miserably? These media failures, whether … Continue reading How Good is a Bad Book?

Over half a year I've been writing on this blog. Over half a year I've been calling myself an 'author', though 'writer' or 'novelist' might have been better terms. Because, as of yet, I still have not published a single book. In the past two years, I have written about 220,000 words, split over a … Continue reading Waiting for the Green Flag

Ever think about the difference between a graphic novel and a novel? They might seem somewhat similar, but I just thought about an interesting element at play, and now I have to post about it. So, in a graphic novel, everything is placed in a two-dimensional image. We can imagine the third dimension, as we … Continue reading Imagination vs. Reality, or Graphic vs. Novel

It's over. The 2016 Election was an amazing script, and kept me guessing until the very end. The epilogue is about to begin, and will most likely last four years. Some of the 300 million characters in this story lost. Some of them won. And now, we deal with the aftermath. A divided nation. It's … Continue reading A United Nation: The Approach of a Writer