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What’s New, Mathew?

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Glad you asked, Mathew. I’m working on No Gods But Us.

Didn’t you start that a while ago?

Yes, for NaNoWriMo 2015! And I wrote a few hundred tentative words of prologue!

So many?

Yep.

Impressive.

I know. But here’s the cool thing: I haven’t stopping thinking about Elegy for Halcyon Chimera since.

So, not new, but progress, at long last?

Mmm. Lots of things going on in my world right now. Very busy with adjusting to a number of things, including coming to grips with some f...

Do You Even Tumbl, Bro?

Not a huge announcement, and not one I’m going to be hammering on to get traffic to, but if you do actually use tumblr, I’ve just converted my longstanding (since 2012) but dormant tumblr blog into a mirror of MathewReuther.com. It’s possible to do all the normal tumblr goodness over there, and it even has disqus comments installed. (Though, sadly, it’s not possible to sync the comments between the ones made here and those posted on the tumblr blog.) I really only lurk on tumblr on occasion,...

I Updated The Site, Because It’s What I Shouldn’t Have Been Doing

When in doubt, procrastinate. That’s how you write novels, you know…

So, with NaNoWriMo 2015 here and too little prep done, I spent a couple of days searching for the quintessence of the story I was going to write. Both in the sense of the overarching series, as well as what the first step (book) needs to be.

And, as you may notice (at the time of this writing) there’s a progress bar up on the sidebar which proudly declares that I have written 48/50000 words on No Gods But Us, the first part...

Writing Environment, Good Habits, and Old Dogs With New Tricks

The last entry made it pretty clear that I was working towards productivity again, but I stipulated that I didn’t know how it would work out. This entry is an update, and a look at some of the arguably useful stuff that isn’t writing—that too often takes time away from writing, in fact.

I’ve been doing a couple of things recently which fairly directly relate to the notion of laying some new work out. The first being reading fairly voraciously. For most of the last couple months I’ve been cons...

What the What in September 2015

So, my last writing update was that I’d started fiddling with some serial (as in the type of writing, not the slang, which is more true of the now than the then, as you’ll see) stuff. I’m not any more. What am I doing instead?

Currently I’m dealing with the six year anniversary of my son Ethan’s death. I’ve been in (and still am in, really) a very dark place. Really. Really. Dark.

The good news here is that I’ve started working on better living through (monitored) chemistry, and have felt som...

Art and Livelihood

In the wake of the launch of “Tidal” (a new music streaming service without a free tier and offering lossless audio) there’s been a general buzz around the internet regarding music and art and what artists should get and whether musicians deserve to eat and the like. I thought that I’d just offer up a few basic thoughts since they were running around in my head anyway.

First off, I think it is vital to understand that I was raised by artists (specializing in drama and music) and I was raised...

Current Project (Non?) News

So as I mentioned last monthI’ve got a lot of energy going into just being a stay-at-home parent. That’s something I do my best not to resent, but I’m human, and resentment is something we all have to deal with at some point in our lives. Of course the good news is that kids eventually grow up, and while they may not be out of my hair completely in a few years, they’ll eventually be in school much of the time, and that will afford me the opportunity to get some more concentrated work done tha...

Guest: L. Blankenship with an Excerpt from the Disciple Omnibus

Today I’ve got L. Blankenship back with an excerpt from her Disciple series (Disciple I, to be precise) in order to mark the release of Disciple VI and the Disciple Omnibus! If you like what you see here, be sure to grab a free copy of Disciple I from the links at the bottom of the page, or just jump in and buy yourself a copy of the Disciple Omnibus itself!

“You couldn’t sleep either?”

At the whisper, I looked up from struggling to lace my boots with trembling hands. My master stepped into...

Net Neutrality and the Writer Again

A long while back I wrote about Net Neutrality, and what it meant to someone who is, for all intents and purposes, a small business owner. I’m writing this followup in light of the fact that the FCC just voted to ensure Net Neutrality yesterday.

The long story made short is this: in America the Internet is a public utility, which means that no company can take actions to give anyone preferential access to it, or attempt to block companies or organizations from accessing the Internet. That’s go...

Toddlers Are Evil

There’s not much to add to the subject line of the post. I spend a lot of time chasing two very industrious children currently. That leaves not a lot of time for writing. Some people manage the balance, sure, but I’m apparently not quite that talented a juggler.

I have been kicking around some ideas (a dark fantasy serial is the latest) recently, so we’ll see if I don’t come up with something sooner rather than later.