Hieronymus Hawkes's Blog, page 15

The Blog is now a full-fledged Author Website

I hired Courtney Pointer-Lewis to update my website to make it more professional and to give it a landing page where I can show off my books. I think she did and outstanding job! She got me with a very cool video explanation of what she could do after looking at my website. From there she was very easy to work with, as well as accommodating. I highly recommend her if you are looking to update your own pages. She can be reached at 247 Marketing Strategist. Thanks Courtney!

Day 2 of the Great Sockmas

Countdown to Christmas!

Day One!

My girlfriend got me this for pre-Christmas festivities this year. Yay!

How is COVID effecting your writing?

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So, I’m writing a scene the other day, and my characters were going to be in a place with a lot of people, and the first thing that came to mind was that they needed to get their masks and socially distance. I naturally flinched at the thought of going into a crowd. It was visceral and funny because the scene takes place more than a decade in the future. This happens sometimes even when I’m watching something on television and see a crowd of people. Has anything like this happened to you?

We all need to watch The Social Dilemma!

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Just watched this show and it is brilliant and amazing and scary as hell. Social media is manipulating us like nothing every has in the history of mankind. We need regulation, yesterday. There is quantifiable truth and the AIs behind these social media tools is lying to us to get us to do the bidding of the people paying for these tools…advertisers, or worse yet, people with malevolent motives. We need to get off this corrosive business model.

The Social Dilemma

Back in the Air!

I got to fly again last week and it was a wonderful treat. Thanks to the entire crew for a great time. The weather was perfect. I got to hang out on the business end with the lovely Debbie Wood!

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Election Day

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It’s a beautiful day here. I hope you voted. We are deep into fall and I am just looking forward to making it to 2021 with the country in one piece.

Join me for NaNoWriMo!

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Once again I will start National Novel Writing Month. I say start because I haven’t “won” since 2010. So it’s my tenth anniversary! I missed the last two years but I am giving it the ol’ college try again this year. It will be good to get back into a daily writing practice and if you are so inclined you can join me and be my one of my writing buddies!

Here is my NaNoWriMo page: Kardaen

Here is their official announcement on Twitter

If you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is I’ll briefly explain. It is an annual writing challenge to “write a 50,000 word novel” in one month. The timer starts at midnight of Halloween and goes until midnight of November 30th. In order to stay on pace you have to write 1667 words a day. It can be a daunting task. I know the year I “won” it took almost every free moment I had, and my wife was not happy at me. At all. I vowed I wouldn’t do that to her again, and I didn’t. And it really is about writing every day. 50k words is not really a novel either. That would qualify as a novella. The year I “won” I felt like I had written half a novel. it could be a series of short stories. Or essays. The entire point, again, is to write every day. Nobody is coming to your house to make sure you are following the “rules.” Jut have fun with it and write what you can. If it’s only a 100 words a day, then that is still 3000 words by the end of the month. And that is 3000 words more than you had before you started.

I use it to springboard a new story usually. Sometimes I take an old story out and try to add to it. I haven’t hit the 50k mark in a decade but this might be the year. If not that’s okay, too.

I hope you join me and good luck!

Getting the Pencil Back in Shape

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I haven’t drawn anything in quite awhile. I want to get back to doing pastel chalks, but was afraid I wasn’t up to the task, so I decided to start with a pencil drawing to warm up the skills. I really wanted to switch to pastel chalk with this one, since the colors are going to work well and there is lots of shading to do with them and the background will pop a lot when I finish it I hope. Time will tell. I did have fun working on this with my best friend working on a painting just across the room. I look forward to more of this in the future!

New Tattoo

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Got this a few months back. The blackbird has some significant importance to me. You can look back a few posts to see why. It’s my first tattoo but probably not my last.