From the Terribleminds challenge “Last Lines First” comes… “Truth be told, I’m not sure any of them are actually dead.” The mug of coffee shook in the engineer’s hands. The nails were chipped and the fingers calloused from years of cleaning, changing, tightening, and banging the many moving parts required for jump drives. The man… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Bump In The Night Raven
Month: July 2013
A Personal Day
I exhausted a good portion of my morning energy laying out some personal thoughts over on Tumblr. I don’t like putting deeply personal stuff here if I can help it, but if you’re curious as to what my actual internal headspace looks like, give the above a click. It’s a bit long and I’m completely… Continue reading A Personal Day
Writer Report: Home Stretch
Here we are, within striking distance of the end of Cold Streets. I have three more scenes to do, and all of them are well laid out in my head. I think a week, two at the most, will be all I need to wrap this puppy up. Then I start editing and getting feedback.… Continue reading Writer Report: Home Stretch
Even Gamers Need Sleep
Very short one today, I’ve been a bit behind in things all morning long. I didn’t get enough sleep last night. I stayed up later than I should have playing the closed beta of [GAME TITLE REDACTED]. I need to find others to discuss it with, as I like it but I have issues with… Continue reading Even Gamers Need Sleep
Game Review: Hotline Miami
Some of the big names in game development have been around for decades. It can be intimidating to look at a field long occupied by well-known names, and even consider the possibility of entering it. But it’s important to have fresh voices and new blood join the fold. Unique perspectives and provocative ideas are the… Continue reading Game Review: Hotline Miami
Everything Old Is New Again
I’ve been blogging for years. I’m not sure if you’d call what I’ve done or have been doing successful or not, when it comes to blogging and other areas of my life, but what I keep coming back to is the fact that old stories still have something to tell us. I have no problem,… Continue reading Everything Old Is New Again
Flash Fiction: The Great Hall
With this week’s Flash Fiction Challenge over at Terribleminds being less than 50 words long, I turned to The Brainstormer for a subject on which to write a longer piece. It gave me “Hero to Kin”, “Viking”, and “bard”. Enjoy some last-minute scribbles! The fire danced and rose high in the hearth at the center… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Great Hall
Writer Report: Supernatural Inspiration
Cold Streets is closer than ever to the end of the first draft. I have a few changes I think I’ll be making before test readers are contacted, so I guess they’ll be seeing a second draft, or perhaps draft 1.5 – either way, I’m on the cusp of switching gears between writing and editing,… Continue reading Writer Report: Supernatural Inspiration
How Independence Day Happened
Rather than do my usual thing of reposting my blog post from 4th of July last year, I’m going to share with you John Green’s special on how this day, in which a bunch of colonial land-owners signed a document that basically flipped off their imperial homeland, became a national holiday. Next year I may… Continue reading How Independence Day Happened
Movie Review: Hellboy – Blood & Iron
I’m not sure what it is about tales of the occult and the supernatural that fascinate me so deeply. It could be the notion that the things that go bump in the night are more than just settling houses and gusts of wind; that right in front of us, just out of sight and barely… Continue reading Movie Review: Hellboy – Blood & Iron
