Some stuff I’ve been working on. Here’s a free chapter to The Party at the Last Tomorrow, my post apocalyptic homage to Edgar Allen Poe: Muse staggered her way along the Last Call Causeway, amid the broken rocks and occasional bones. Her brain was screaming at her to sleep. With each step the saccharine synth ploddings… Read More Free Fiction Fest
There was a news item some time ago about a veteran who wanted to put a flagpole in his backyard and was denied by his HOA. According to Snopes, the political pressure arising from the controversey led to the HOA backing off. But a similar story arose late last year. Gary Pittman lives in Rock… Read More How To Hate Homeowners Associations, Build Flagpoles, and Influence People
From the Telegraph. (h/t Moe Lane) Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – Read it as a child, I think? Parts of it, anyway. 1984 – George Orwell – Read it in high school. Reread several times. The Lord Of The Rings trilogy – JRR Tolkien – Read it in middle school. Dad made me read The… Read More How many of the Top Twenty Books People Claim to have Read, Have you actually Read?
As promised earlier, here’s a first chapter of a post-apocalyptic homage to the Masque of the Red Death. Click to read for free on Tablo!
And by “recent” I of course mean “yesterday” Less recently, I took Facebook off my phone. It just takes up too much data space, and I tire of scrolling through it. This doesn’t mean that Facebook is “dead” to me, but it does mean that I will be using it less frequently. The charm of… Read More Writing Apps and Social Media – Some Recent Experiences
Thus demonstrating that it is not possible to reach a ne plus ultra of nerdiness. (h/t Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit) Gondor’s own laws and rulers even recognized how ridiculous Aragorn’s claim was. Arvedui, the last king of Arnor before he drowned in a shipwreck, once claimed the throne of Gondor, but the Council of Gondor rightly… Read More Monarchial Legitimist Assails the Throne of Gondor
Why not both? A discussion of the Great Unsurprise of the New Year – the unfinishing of The Winds of Winter – has prompted Joe Vasicek to point out that for indie authors, it may be more the latter: In the traditional system, writers were paid an advance on royalties by their publishers. The contract also… Read More Is Writing Art, or Commerce?
A Song of Ice and Fire, Hold the Ice If you’re on Reddit, you probably noticed or took part in the New Year’s Night vigil of watching George R.R. Martin’s livejournal for the update on The Winds of Winter. I myself did, and it was an instructive lesson in group emotions: first excitement, then frustration,… Read More Content Creation Blues
The Stranger is a slim read, but I found it confusing. Supposedly, Sartre thought it a profoundly silly book, the equivalent of reporting on a soccer match with the words “I saw adults in shorts fighting and throwing themselves on the ground in order to send a leather ball between two wooden posts.” I feel similarly,… Read More The Stranger is the Stranger….
It’s time to deal with some unpleasant truths, Song of Ice and Fire fans. The Shows are going to Lap the Books. This is going to happen. We are going to get spoiled by a show in which there is no Lady Stoneheart, no Brave Companions, in which the Greyjoys except Theon hardly exist and have… Read More Leave George R.R. Martin Alone
Content Blues 