Category: Writing
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It’s easy to become disheartened when submitting your writing. We’ve all been there. Even after all the heavy lifting of writing a story or novel, revising it, getting feedback, even working with an editor, you send it out into the world with high hopes. Sadly, there is no guarantee of success, exception maybe perseverance, but…
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I’ve been a fan of Douglas Adams since I was in junior high. A friend of mine thrust a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at me and said, “If you like Monty Python, you’ll probably like this.” He was right. I devoured the whole four-part trilogy (as it was then) and found…
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Since I stumble across a number of interesting links and articles, I figure I’ll keep sharing them in little round-up posts like this. Controversial Star Wars opinion: Jar Jar Binks is good I realize if I’m going to keep doing links posts, I may have to just admit many (most? all?) of them are going…
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As every year passes, I become more convinced Roger Zelazny died way too soon. I first encountered his work when I was fourteen, thanks to a friend who thrust Nine Princes in Amber into my hands and swore it was one of the best books he’d ever read. Since I was already reading two huge fantasy series…
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I haven’t done much in the way of blog posts that consist largely of links. I suppose I came close with Fake Metal Bands That Should Have Existed. However, the maestro of such posts is Natalie Luhrs, and if you’re not already following her blog, get thee hence and see what you’re missing. Then come…
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Spoiler: my dog is not a writer. However, he needs walks regularly and that, I’ve found, helps my writing. Dash is a black Lab cross, which means as far as the Humane Society could tell he looks like a Lab but that’s clearly not all that’s in his parentage. He’s just over two years…
