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Characters vs Plot: What Inspires Me First?
I’ve seen this question come up several times among writers: do you think of characters or plots first? I can’t speak for every writer, but for me, it’s both–and sometimes neither. Character First The story idea that inspired me to become a writer (and is still rattling around in my head waiting for me to…
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Shallow Trenches/Open Skies Draft 1 is Finally Done
I’m a little late with this, but I was completely wiped out with a migraine all last week. But now I’m better, so I’m pleased to announce that I have finally finished the first draft of my World War 1 set sci-fi novel Shallow Trenches/Open Skies. I had originally thought I would finish in December…
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A Post for Pickles
You’ll have to forgive me if I don’t want to get too deep into anything today. The fact is, this is a sad home right now, and it’s been difficult to focus on work. We lost another fuzzy, four-legged member of our family last week, the old man of the house and our resident quintessential…
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Cosplay (Sort of?) Reveal!
With a title like that I should probably start off by saying this isn’t a big, full-blown cosplay, and I am not a big-time cosplayer. I have dabbled a bit for specific events (many, many years ago I went to Burning Man and made a few things for that, and I made a Nostromo uniform…
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The Cobalt Fist
I’m hip deep in re-outlining my epic, seven book series I’m temporarily calling The Cobalt Fist. I’m having so much fun it’s actually eating into the time I should be spending on finishing my current WIP, Shallow Trenches/Open Skies. But, alas, The Cobalt Fist is my favorite sandbox to play in, so I’m okay with…
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April Anticipation Brought May Flowers
Back at the beginning of April, I wrote a blog post titled Writing News & April Anticipation. And now that it’s May a lot of that anticipation has paid off, so I thought it was time for a follow up! Contest & Awards Laramie Awards I won’t bury the lead, and will instead jump into…
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The Art of Time Travel: How Sci-Fi Has Changed
Over the few years, I’ve found myself reading more classic science fiction than usual. Recently, I read Larry Niven’s Ringworld series for and Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama for the first time, followed by Clarke’s Childhood’s End, a favorite of mine from adolescence. While I loved each of them, I couldn’t help but notice how much these classic…
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What’s On My TBR?
Keeping it light this week because I’m extra busy with new projects and a regular hobby jumping into overtime. Add to that the fact that I just finished my first book of the year (yes, I know, I am way behind on my reading goal, and while I have broken my slump, it’s still been…
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EdiE: Diesel-Punk PC No More, Long Live MCM Retro-Future PC
About a year ago, I shared that I was going to be building a diesel-punk PC. Life got hectic, and that project, having only just gotten started, was put on the indefinite back burner. But then my every-day PC died, and due to financial constraints, I was forced to long-term-borrow a friend’s laptop in order…
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Artemis II & Science Fiction
As a life-long enthusiast of science fiction, science fact, and space exploration as a concept, I have always sort of (and perhaps naively) took it for granted that we would one day go back to the moon. It felt like an inevitability to me. Yet, now that it’s finally happening (assuming the drive towards Artemis…
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