Category: Using my Degree
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Creating a Fantasy World – Writing Things Down
This isn’t about world building as an end goal. I’m not planning a game system, languages or anything of that type. I’m reverse engineering a world which I’ve had a clear picture in my mind for twenty years. And it’s hard. It’s so easy to just write and let your world get away from you.…
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Sigh… Art, Writing, Screwing Up Blog Posts
Needing to create has brought me here. I’m arting fairly often. At least 2 – 3 projects a week. Practice in between. My writing is still stalled. Kinda. Kinda. I’m working on getting my world into World Anvil. And I’m trying to organize my thoughts. It’s hard. My thoughts have scattered like so many pieces…
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Loosing the Will to Write
It’s hard thing to admit my identity is not so secure. Something that the idea of me has been wrapped up in since the last day of 8th grade. It’s hard to admit it that I haven’t been writing. We’re in year two of that fact. It’s not that I don’t want to. I think…
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Goals in 2022
I know, resolutions were due nearly 3 months ago. If you’re like me with an ever revolving list of things to do with items that I just want to get done, then you know that finding time is such an issue. So is practice. Last year was bad. So bad that I just threw myself…
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The Hero’s Journey is Not the Only Story
The monomyth is all. All hail the monomyth. In the late eighties, just I was reaching the point where I realized I wanted to be a writer, the Hero’s Journey was top of mind. Joseph Campbell’s work of the past several decades had influenced the halls of fantasy and sci fi in ways that gave…
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Rewriting and Revising: A Love Story
About a year ago I reread my first novel. It was horrible. I had just finished Novel 3 and my writing style had changed to a point that I could see the stark differences. Why had agents requested fulls? Why had this made finalist in several competitions? Why had people told me it was good?…
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Wrestling with Demons
I’ve spent the last year in revision hell. Rewriting book one was a good choice, but understanding what I’m doing with it? Well. We can’t all be prodigies. I think I’m finding that groove, though I still confuse the readers. Amid the pitfalls of EXPLAIN ALL THE THINGS and god we hate her…I’m finding that…
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Relearning Command Line
Trying do more with programming, I finally had to admit to myself that my command line skills were a bit rusty…Windows 3.1 rusty. Other than some pings, ipconfigs, and maybe a cd or two, I haven’t really worked with anything on that level since maybe 2005. And why would I? I could get around just…
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Listen Published Today at Circlet Press
My short, Listen, was published today at Circlet Press. The link is NSFW, but when you have time, please check it out. I wrote this several years ago as part of a challenge. It’s a fun little story.
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Your Team is Not Agile
The concept of Agile teams is a something that can be freeing. It’s an ever rejuvenating approach to creation and can be great to make large project manageable. You can apply the concepts to all kinds of planning. For example, I use it for how I outline what I write. At certain stages, I reevaluate…
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Setting Up a Raspberry Pi – Things I Learned (Woot! Node.js!)
I bought a Raspberry Pi. This little make device, toy, stuff, right? Well I wanted to have a dev environment, and this was best choice. I learned some things that I thought I’d share. Like most dev things, there seems to be a contingent that wants to keep things hard. And like most of the…
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And So I Twitch
The truth is I pretty much lost it. I want to do things, but as things spiral out of control, even when they are going well, there is no end until you bounce. So, in January, I hit and bounced. Now I understand that this year has been shitty for a lot of people, and…