I am almost constantly listening to music. I don’t like empty silence. It feels too loud to me. If things are silent, I need to through on a little background music to help me relax. Since my wife likes silence, this means I am often wearing headphones. Of course, it doesn’t always need to be … More My Indie Author Revelation
My latest project, a sequel to Deadly Troubadours, has finished its rough draft and first pass editing stage. It is now out into the world of beta-readers. I’m resisting the urge to rip it open and live inside it. That’s what I’ve been doing since March, except for my time at camp. I can’t decide … More A Break from the Book
Now I’ve gone and done it! I missed my self-imposed deadline for finishing this first draft by the end of September. I guess there is nothing to do but rend my garments. And it was going all so well. Until my body realized that working, fathering, and writing is fairly exhausting. Not that that makes it … More Deadline Fever
I’m making use of my summer break to finish the long neglected podcast Reading Deadly Troubadours. For the longest time it has been haunting me, reminding me that it is a project yet unfinished. I kept meaning to make progress on it, but when time arose other concerns came off as more pressing. Now I … More Reading Deadly Troubadours Returns
Listen, I love writing. I even love writing about how I love writing. But sometimes it kicks me in the face. I feel the limits my own understanding and just have to push against them. And this never seems to be in the weird, out of this world stuff. Need an ogre to lay the … More Sometimes Writing is Hard
If you’ve followed this blog for a little bit you might have seen that I am a big supporter of G. Derek Adams. There are several reasons for this. First is that we’ve been friends for many a year. We’ve done dozens of plays together and spent countless hours rolling dice in RPGs. Second is … More Rock the (Dragon Con) Vote
Self doubt sucks. And it serves very little point other than to spoil productivity. Now, there is the obvious kind of self doubt, the self doubt that says “you are a terrible artist and everyone thinks your work is crap.” I’m sure all independent artists have to put up with that little voice and we … More Self Doubt and Book Math
I’m still in the middle of camp season, which means that five of every eight days is in the mountains. Understandably many of my little projects are essentially put on a shelf during camp season. But this last break something great happened. I had the time and energy to write. Normally during the breaks I … More The Love of Writing
I’ve been reading for a long time that folk like me (writer’s/bloggers) should set up an email list serve. I’ve been putting that off for a long time now. There are a few reasons for that. First of all, I have little idea of how to set up a list. Every new thing I add … More Email List
It should not be news to anyone by now that I hope to one day earn money by writing. I guess that is the goal for a lot of people who blog on a regular basis. I mean, who would write almost daily if they don’t want people to read what they are writing and … More More and More
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