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May 5, 2013
Update | Junkpunk project – First Draft COMPLETED
Today I wrote the final words in my latest project. Remember that novel? I briefly mentioned it not long ago in an earlier post (click here). I called it “junkpunk”. This is only the completed first draft but it’s the hardest part of writing, getting the story out on the page. I added characters I [...]
Update | Junkpunk project Firest Draft COMPLETED
Today I wrote the final words in my latest project. Remember that novel? I briefly mentioned it not long ago in an earlier post (click here). I called it “junkpunk”. This is only the completed first draft but it’s the hardest part of writing, getting the story out on the page. I added characters I [...]
April 26, 2013
News| May Indie Author Event and a First Look at “Bad Monsters”
May is less than five days away. Yeah, awesome movies like “Iron Man 3″ and “Star Trek Into Darkness” are releasing. But that’s not why you should be excited. Aside From Writing’s 2013 Indie Author Event is nearly here (click here for the details)! All through May the blog will showcase current and upcoming novels [...]
April 21, 2013
Musings | Setting the Mood
I hate silence when writing. When I write I need noise. Nonsensical background noise is best. Classical music. A little techno. Film scores even. You can say I create auniquesoundtrack for the novels I’m working through. Therhythmand beats of the songs help the story to flow from my fingertips, almost like I’m in a trance. [...]
April 11, 2013
Writing | Writing Everyday
Read most author blogs about the writing process or listen to authors talk about their craft and one thing becomes clear with regards to becoming a strong andsuccessfulwriter: you have to write. Everyday. Even if its only half an hour. It’s aboutpracticing. Professional athletes do it, they go out to the court or the field, [...]
March 4, 2013
Update | Monsters and Junkpunk
Apologies for my slacking. Updates have been few and far between lately in regards to my own projects. Fear not to the two people who read these updates, I am busy. The last copy edits to the next installment in the Our Monsters Chronicles, “Bad Monsters”, remain in process. After that I’ll be indulging in [...]
February 24, 2013
Review | “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline
Blurb from Goodreads.com: It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and [...]
January 29, 2013
Review | “Stormdancer” by Jay Kristoff
Book description from Goodreads: Griffins are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father Masaru are sent to capture one for the Shogun, they fear that their lives are over. Everyone knows what happens to those who fail him, no matter how hopeless the task. But the mission proves far less [...]
January 17, 2013
Review | Necromancing the Stone by Lish McBride
Book summary from Goodreads: With the defeat of the evil Douglas behind him, Sam LaCroix is getting used to his new life. Okay, so he hadn’t exactly planned on being a powerful necromancer with a seat on the local magical council and a capricious werewolf sort-of-girlfriend, but things are going fine, right? Well . [...]
January 10, 2013
Recommendation | History is Hardcore?
Never when I was younger–high school and before–did I like I wouldsalivateabout learning. If I was required to plant my butt at a school desk, I was squirming, looking at the clock, and counting down to the bell’s ring. I enjoyed writing and reading well enough, but those subjects were not myobsessions then as they [...]
