Roderick T. Macdonald's Blog, page 2
August 26, 2025
Practice, Pool, Writing, and Joy
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! As some of you may know, I’m passing fond of the game of pool. This does connect to writing, bear with me. Since before the pandemic I had lost most of my pool playing mojo. I stopped playing in my last league in December of 2019, thinking I …
August 19, 2025
Hardback release and dreams of Alien
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! The Thief and The Demon hardback copy is HERE! A little late to the party, but a welcome guest nonetheless. I’m fixing the non-formatted blurb. I fixed the other two versions that also got crammed together when I changed their covers, but for some reason it did not …
August 12, 2025
Religion and Politics and a Cover Upgrade! (Hardback coming soon!)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Politics and Religion. Religion and politics. The advice is not to talk about it in polite company. So I wrote a book centered on faith and religion, and I’m writing a book about politics, power, and the self-serving nature of rulers. These are the choices of the writer …
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August 5, 2025
Time and Balance
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Another week passes. This time next week I hope to have released the new hardback version of The Thief and The Demon. I will share here the new cover when I receive it. I have been working on getting set up to do the narration of my books. …
July 29, 2025
And now a word from our spokesperson…
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! A week of news and positivity for you! I am going to have an upgraded cover for The Thief and The Demon! Coming to a theatre/site near you, soon! I’ve wanted to give the title some more oomph and visibility for quite a while, and have agreed on …
July 22, 2025
Slave to the Algo
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This quitting/cutting back on the internet is hard. The algorithm loves me and wants me to be happy. Just one more video related to one of my previously documented obsessions. Look, it is slightly different than the others. Oooh! An update! New recycled content about Alien!! Updates on …
July 15, 2025
Writing, Cooking, and a bit of Walking
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! So nice to see you! I blog therefore I am. You read (and like) and therefore you are? I have no idea. But I’d like to hope you are real: an audience of bots and AI scraping around for usable data that isn’t already AI generated would be …
July 8, 2025
Restraint and Discernment : A Writer’s Thoughts for the Week
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This blog brought to you by Florence and the Machine’s High as Hope album. And some of Ceremonials. What The Water Gave Me is fantastic. Two big thoughts this week. (Not legitimately big, just the two discrete subjects I want to briefly discuss. Discreetly.) 1) The internet can …
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July 1, 2025
Riffing on Writing as an Art and Craft – Inspiration in the face of AI Impersonation
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I missed last week. I thought about putting out a quick blast for the sake of keeping up with weekly output, but decided not to. Better silence than thoughtless blather, I hope! I have been watching lots of writerly videos on You Tube this week. Yes, this is …
June 17, 2025
Riffing on the Stylish Voice of Conviction
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! A quick one this week, on a thorny subject. What, my friends, is style? Do cats have it with abundance? In writing style seems to be both sought after, and discounted, if you listen to the wild warblings available on the once world wide web. It is both …
