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July 12, 2013
Achievement Unlocked!
On Wednesday I hinted that there was likely to be another update on my writing this week, and I was right! Last Sunday I was looking at milestones for my progress, and realized that based on the rate of progress I had made on the second draft of The Perils of Prague, I was right on track to complete the draft this week. Then I had several days in a row when I had to spend my daily writing time working on other projects. I got my daily writing in, I just didn’t make any progress on editing Per...
July 10, 2013
Attack of the Dayjob!
This is a late #WriterWednesday post, and it is also going to be a short one. Hopefully I’ll be able to add in a longer post later in the week. As you can tell from the title of this little missive, work has dominated my life of late. I had a good, long Fourth of July weekend, in which I was able to go to a couple of parties at friend’s houses, see some fantastic fireworks, play some Cards Against Humanity, and watch the cook consistently give my burger to someone else. It was a good time, bu...
July 8, 2013
Balticon 47 Wrap up – Part 6, Disasterpiece Theatre!
Welcome to Part 6 of the Balticon 47 Wrap up! This time we are jumping into the action with episode 66 of Disasterpiece Theatre!recorded live at Balticon at noon on Sunday the 26th of May.If you’re a regular listener of Disasterpiece Theatre, you’ve probably already heard this episode, but if not, we strongly recommend checking out the other episodes of Disasterpiece Theatre. Especially if you’ve wondered about the process by which studios choose which movies they are going to make.
This episo...
July 3, 2013
Half done is well begun.
Wow. Will you look at that. It’s July now. July. 2013 is half over. Halfway done. I’ve set some ambitious goals for the latter half of the year. Perhaps I should also take some time to take stock of what I’ve done so far. Let’s see how it breaks down…
In the first half of this year, I’ve written over 56 thousand words. I’m over half done in preparing the second draft of The Perils of Prague. I even just sent out Chapter 1 to a few potential editors and some volunteer readers. I also wrote my s...
July 1, 2013
Balticon 47 Wrap up – Part 5, The Galley Table Surprise Mutiny!
Welcome back, for more from the Balticon 47 Wrap up! This week we are diving right into the action with episode 92 of Galley Table recorded live at Balticon on Sunday at 1 PM. If you’re a regular Galley Table listener, you’ve already heard this episode. If not, you may want to check out Galley Table for more fun, geeky discussion of writing, publishing and other geeky stuff.
They say that no one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition, but the truth is, no ever really expects JeffHiteto mutiny on...
June 27, 2013
Maven – An Experiment in Self-Publishing
[Today, we have something special for you. And by "we" I don't mean just my wife, the cats, and myself. Today we have a guest post from Author Starla Huchton, as part of her Blog Tour to promote her newly released book Maven. Starla has been all over the place with this blog tour, doing interviews, giving character interviews, sharing pre-release blurbs and talking a lot about the book. Well, I had to be different. I didn't want to bring my readers the same kind of material that you could fin...
June 26, 2013
A big Thank you! and other writing news…
After only a week, I’d like to thank everyone who has offered their help towards getting The Perils of Prague ready for publication, especially considering the contact form I used last week didn’t work as expected. I’ve been contacted by eight different people so far who have voiced their willingness lend my project a hand. Some are fellow authors, who are willing to Beta read for me in exchange for having me Beta read their work. A couple are editors who are willing to offer their services i...
June 23, 2013
Balticon 47 Wrap up – Part 4, Dirty Mad Libs – Part 2
Welcome back, my friends! It is time for another Balticon 47 Wrap-up episode brought to you by Balticon and Swimming Cat Studios! Today’s episode is Not Safe for Work, and Not Safe for Children! For today we have Dirty Mad Libs, Part 2! This episode features Starla Huchton as she goes through her Dirty Mad Lib with the assistance of moderator Patrick Scaffido and the late night Balticon audience. Not familiar with Dirty Mad Libs? In this popular Balticon game, your panelists have taken a stea...
June 19, 2013
Help me, will you please?
When I started Swimming Cat Studios, I named it because I was having to do a lot on my own, teaching myself as I went. I had some resources to steer me in the right direction, and a few friends who could give me suggestions, but I pretty much had to do it on my own. It is the only way to learn new skills. Over the years I’ve tried a lot of new things, had some success, and some failures, and learned a few things.
One of the things I’ve learned is that there are some things you can’t do for you...
June 16, 2013
Balticon 47 Wrap up – Part 3, Dirty Mad Libs – Part 1
The Balticon 47 Wrap up rolls on! In today’s installment, we are happy to bring you a panel whose recordings have been highly sought after in previous Balticons: Dirty Mad Libs. And when we say dirty, we mean it! This episode is Not Safe for Work, and Not Safe for Kids! On Dirty Mad Libs, we start with classic erotica, make a mad lib of it, then gather words from the audience to make the result even more obscene! And hilarious! So only proceed to listen to this episode if you are not easily o...
