More updates and goodish news

I’ve made the short story “The Open Hand” available for viewing in the “Stories” section and added a character profile for Sephias, the theoretical protagonist of “The Dawn Prism.” I also received an email today from Shimmer magazine. My story of family drama and giant monsters, “Silent and Still They Wait” has been passed on [...]

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Not so horrible

So, last night I was watching “The Dead Zone” on my beloved Netflix instant viewing and it got me thinking about a thing I’ve thought about before. Stephen King is (rightly) known as the King of Horror. However, a significant portion of his work is not necessarily, in my estimation, horror. Now as many of [...]

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Massive, throbbing, vibrating update

I’ve made some huge additions to the site. I’ve added a “Stories” page where I will make some of my work available for your perusing pleasure. Currently it contains the short story “Pilgrimage” a tale of obsession and sea monsters. I also updated the character profile for hot-headed Red mage assassin Meteos, and added a [...]

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Tag, You’re It

So, I’ve been sort of tagged by the lovely Meredith in one of these question-answering type things. Here are the rules:The Tag rules: 1. You must post the rules! 2. Answer the questions and then create eleven new questions to ask the people you’ve tagged. 3. Tag seven (because it’s a magical number) people and [...]

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Movie Recommendation-Wake Wood-Slight Update

So, some while back I’d rented the actual DVD of the classic movie “The Wicker Man” which I’d never seen but knew I needed to. It’s a great movie that I also recommend, as long as you can handle the mild trauma of Christopher Lee in drag. Anyway, that movie put me in the mood [...]

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The Good, the Bad and the futility of trying to figure out which is which

So, lately I have seen and participated in a lot of discussion about what makes a “good” story, narrative theory, story structure, audience appeal all those sorts of things. I’ve developed some theories and thoughts of my own along the way. My personal belief is that all art is entirely subjective, or so much so [...]

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Small update, and a question about hair color

I’ve just updated the character profile page for Zerieth, one of my central UotNRs characters. Also, I’ve been thinking about a small detail that will come into play in the next chapters of “The Dawn Prism.” As I’ve already mentioned, my characters will be traveling to a land that is strongly Asian/anime flavored in design, [...]

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Rejection Wiki and a nice discovery

Thanks to Pam of Musing Aloud and Liberty Hall fame for posting about an interesting resource for us writer types: The Rejection Wiki. This site contains information about the different types of rejections publications send out. Most professional markets particularly use form rejections, but many of them have a basic form and a “higher tier” [...]

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Novel Thoughts

So, yesterday, although I didn’t get far I did begin on Chapter 6 of my Universe of the Nine Roads novel, which I think I am going to working-title “The Dawn Prism.” That is a good thing. However, I have also been thinking about a thing relating to that story about which I am not [...]

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“Galateon” completed

Just finished the first draft of “Galateon” a new short story I’ve been working on, largely as background for my Roads world novel. It also deals with issues of the difference between the life of the body and the soul and whether it is wise to strive for perfection, with a little flavor of competing [...]

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