Roderick T. Macdonald's Blog, page 6
October 22, 2024
Making Games of Work
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! It has been a week since last I blogged. A long week, filled with nonsense, and not the fun kind that Alice had to deal with. Part of the reason I am not a book business person is I loathe dealing with bureaucracy, with paperwork, with checklists and …
October 15, 2024
Writing, The Struggle Toward Catharsis
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Third version of cover has been seen. Close, so close. I have proofed the formatting in the book version of the manuscript. Twenty seven changes later it is complete. Should have been fewer, I know. There were a few hiccups I think I could go back to… but …
October 8, 2024
The ARC of the Universe is Long, and Bends Toward… Playing Pool?
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Cover art is almost there! I am proofing the formatted version of the book, and it is hard reading the words again, for what seems like the millionth time. I’ve had doubts, but writers always do. I’ve also had bursts of pleasure, where the words, even a million …
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October 1, 2024
Cover art and Futures Emerging from Dream
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Another week flies by. The Killer and the Dead is now on sale: if this book belongs to any month, it’s October! (In lands that make note of Hallowe’en, or have October as the prelude to Day of the Dead at the start of November.) This week I …
September 24, 2024
Of Cabbage-rolls and Kings.
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have improved my day to day constructiveness this weekend. At the cost of learning Scots. I’ll take it, for now. In perusing the internet (never advisable) I have discovered I am the worst indie author ever (by elimination), because I first published 7 years ago and have …
September 17, 2024
Long Day’s Rambling into Night (Gratitude and Random Thoughts)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! The end of a long day. He says at 7.51pm. I need more days like this. LCCN applied for, ISBN for 3 versions of The Gardener and The Goddess assigned, synopsis written, blurb rewritten and finalized. Cleaned up my office: I’m no longer in danger of being overcome …
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September 10, 2024
A Week of Changes and who do I write for?
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Each week can bring surprising changes. A couple of weeks ago I wasn’t thinking I’d be leaving this house any time soon. Now there are floor plans and to do lists. Last week when I wrote my blog I didn’t know I’d be offered the chance to have …
September 3, 2024
Update and random thoughts about story creation and execution
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Updates and talk about stories. Formatting is go. It wasn’t exactly in place last week, which was concerning me. Now the text will probably be in place well before the cover art. I am relieved because I wanted to have the old gang back together for this third …
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August 27, 2024
Updates and Lost Dreams (Literal lost dreams – there is nothing grandly melancholy in this blog at all, FYI.)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I managed not to go see Alien: Romulus a third time this weekend. I did look at the times though. It was still in an Imax near me, I was tempted. I am a massive fan of The Crow. Saw the 1994 movie four times at the cinema. …
August 20, 2024
Alien:Romulus Second View
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! My apologies. I’m a big Alien fan, so I’m going to blather on about Romulus again. But this is the last time. For now. I have made progress on my targets from last week, will update you later. The second viewing of A:R. Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers. You have …
