Dylan Callens's Blog: The Silent Guardian, page 21
December 2, 2015
Genre Choosing
Written by Justin Bienvenue
Sometimes one of the many issues we run into as authors is to which genre does our book fall under? Yes in most cases it’s easy to distinguish a books place and where it should fall but sometimes that’s not so
December 1, 2015
Missing the Silver Lining
Written by Ben Wand
When I was wrapping up my book, Rocker’s Road, I found an amazing quote that seemed to sum up the theme:
Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.
November 29, 2015
God's Diary
Written by: Alicia Hooper
My name is God. I have many names. I have many faiths. I am everything that is good and perfect. I am the world’s grand designer, experimenter, and father.
In the beginning, I created light. With light, came the universe. And with the universe, came earth.
Creation
All life, every living creature I designed from nothing, is unimportant in the face of my greatest creation, humanity. Two humans were all I needed to make me happy; a man and a woman, Adam and Eve.
November 26, 2015
Nietzsche's Descent
Friedrich Nietzsche's Death The story often told is this: Nietzsche was causing a ruckus in the streets of Turin as he made his way to the Piazza Carlo Alberto. Upon arriving, he found a man whipping a horse. Nietzsche ran to the horse and threw his arms around it, to protect the animal. At that moment, he apparently collapsed under the weight of his own philosophical beliefs.
It’s a great story about a man that was so distraught by his own philosophical beliefs that it eventually crushed hi...
November 13, 2015
About the Author
Dylan Callens came up with the core idea for Operation Cosmic Teapot while in university. Back then, he was writing a terrible, terrible book with no discernible plot and characters that were flatter than stick figures on a piece of paper. From that travesty; however, the image of God being unable to perform his duties as a result of too much paperwork, stuck in his mind. Years later, he imagined Nietzsche as God's boss. Of course, Nietzsche desperately wanted to fire God because of a lifelo...
