Writing -any creative endeavor, really – is all about giving yourself permission to fail. Now, in one sense, that’s idiotic and ridiculous. The purpose of art is not to make something that’s bad. It’s not to allow something that’s bad to enter the market. The purpose of art is to make something that people respond… Read More WriteTip: When You Get Stuck, You Just Keep Going
The first draft of The Devil Left Him is finished. Read up to the penultimate chapter for free on Tablo. Just in Time for Lent, which, among other things, honors Jesus’ Fast in the Desert. The last chapter is done, too, but I’m holding on to it for now. It will be edited and then published… Read More One, Down, Two to Go…
…but I have been collecting followers on Tablo at a fairly rapid clip. Without too much promotion on social media, either. I’m going to chalk that up to the work appealing on some level. The last chapter of The Devil Left Him is started. I can still finish if I sit down and make it happen.… Read More I Don’t Know If This Means Anything…
http://blog.dictionary.com/word-fact-toward-vs-towards/ I was stuck for which to use, so I googled. Apparently there’s no rule against using it either way, but “toward” is more common in North America, and “towards” elsewhere.
First, update to The Party at the Last Tomorrow (Click image to go to Tablo and read it) I am now 4 chapters and about 8500 words into this one. That’s the least amount of progress on any of the things I’m working on right now, which is surprising because it’s the one I conceived earliest. I… Read More The Year of the Three Novellas (which are probably novelettes, but whatever)
First off, there’s a new chapter up. It’s actually an old chapter, since I update on Tablo one chapter behind. So When I finished Chapter 5 this morning, I made Chapter 4 available. I do it that way because it feels good not to be behind my audience. That means I have about 1, maybe… Read More Naming the Dark One: a “The Devil Left Him” Update
In my research as to the proper way to have a career as an indie author, I’ve read a good few useful books and absorbed what some successful authors have had to say. The boys over at Realm and Sands, who do the Self-Publishing Podcast, have coined the phrase “Write. Publish. Repeat.”, which is the… Read More Email Lists, Book Covers, Periscope, and Other Assorted Jazz
This was a short essay I wrote a few years ago and have toyed with either expanding or publishing as-is. I decided upon the latter. It’s basic point, that rebellion is justified according to the prime value of a culture, is to my mind eloquently expressed. There’s obviously a great deal more to say on… Read More Available on Amazon: The Right of Revolution
This click-baity article at the Federalist: “Why Does Disney Hate Boys So Much?” way overstates its case. Contra the article, male Disney characters have not gotten lamer lately. As the father of two little girls, and as a boy who had a sister during the “Disney Renaissance”, I’ve seen my share of Princess movies. And… Read More A Sober and Logical Analysis of Disney Princes, or No, Disney Doesn’t Hate Boys
I had this long blog post about Statistical Clustering and Artists Die, but Art Survives written in response to Carrie Fisher’s demise called Why I Don’t Get Sad Over Dead Celebrities. I was letting it lie to give it an editorial once-over before I posted it. Here’s the part that got Overtaken By Events: Is… Read More That’ll Do, 2016. That’ll Do.
