HQ of an Aspiring Author
09/20/2014 2 Comments
It’s been a busy week, but hey, check out some of the updates to the site if you have a minute – especially my new Features page!
The above phrase popped into my head (though I suppose it’s originally a bit longer), and it was such a great moment… a really simple character trying to tell a complex story, trying to create conversation, to break the ice, to ease the tension. And the best he got was that the sky was blue…
Hope it’s all blue skies for you!
09/13/2014 1 Comment
This time, the story is me. Rough week, it seems, here on DBCII. I have a really busy September, which seems like it is leading into a much calmer October… and a long vacation in November. I need to get way ahead on things, or else decide to push things back for the future. I want to write, need to write. And I am doing so – I’m keeping things going on Comparative Geeks, I’m still contributing on Sourcerer… Unfortunately, that means that this blog is the third on my priorities list.
So I’ve fallen back to my old Features this week, today and Monday. I’m going to try to figure this out, to keep this going.
09/08/2014 1 Comment
At some point when doing Features, you have to figure out when you just need to call it. I didn’t plan far enough in advance to do a writing post today, and so, I don’t want to force it. Sure, I could probably write something real fast, but I was working on my post for Comparative Geeks for today, and I’m setting up a series on Sourcerer (going to be comics next!) which will be a couple of posts, and more from there.
Maybe Monday is a bad time for me to be doing an extra post. Maybe it’ll be easier when I’m not working Saturdays for six-days a week. Maybe it’ll never be easy and I just need to keep at it. Maybe I should have had a backlog of posts before I started into this plan. I don’t know.
But for now, I hope you enjoy the meme!
08/25/2014 9 Comments
The time is here, the time is now! I have figured out what to do with Mondays! The votes are in, the planning is together, and lo and behold – my writing blog will have some writing going on!
Thus, my new Feature – Muse Monday! I am pulling together a few different ideas I’ve had and, now that I have been pulling off Features (mostly), I think upping the game sounds good. So one writing idea I’ve had is that I use writing prompts from some writing prompt books I have. Easy enough!
Alright, so I have writing prompt books, sorted. That’s half of my plan. However, I had another thought: a set of stories related only by their setting. I’ve thought of a few settings, but I think the one that has the best potential of a variety of people, scenarios, and possibilities: a cruise ship.
So I don’t know how this will all turn out. I haven’t read many of the prompts, because you read one and you start getting ideas… read another, and new and more and different ideas – or maybe mixed.
Both books have the prompts sorted by type, though, so I can target which one I turn to week over week. And I will probably be turning to you, dear readers, for prompts as well! If you have any you want to toss at me now, feel free to do so, in the comments below!
Writing commences next week!
08/24/2014 5 Comments
But what is the son but an extension of the father?
-Frank Herbert, Dune
If we were having coffee, I would be having a white chocolate mocha. It’s my favorite, it’s my weakness, it’s my flavor. (The picture above is today’s white mocha.)
It’s not just my drink. It’s my dad’s drink. I always joke that I have his taste buds and, if we were having coffee, I’d probably tell you that… and tell you that I should probably give my dad his taste buds back.
I have a lot of great memories of my dad and I drinking white mochas together, too. We would always try to get them before going to tournaments. We played Warhammer Fantasy together. We would usually be the first ones to a tournament or a con, precisely because we had to leave early enough to stop and get a white mocha. To be ready for the day.
My dad and I played other games together, as well. The original Diablo. Magic: The Gathering. And many other games that we played simultaneously: Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Bane of the Cosmic Forge…
It was my dad who taught me Dungeons and Dragons. My dad who made me a gamer.
I am reminded of these connections, of the importance of fathers, because I was at a the memorial service for my friends’ dad. He succumbed to ALS, right in the middle of a huge viral campaign around fighting the disease, a massive, modern-age fundraiser.
So if we were having coffee, I’d tell you that my wife and I gave money. That you should too – that it’s a good cause to fight a terrible disease. I’d probably challenge you to take the challenge too.
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