Thaddeus Howze's Blog, page 2
November 7, 2015
How can I get over the fact I am going to die?
Answer by Thaddeus Howze: Lean into it. Did you think you would be exempt from the very thing that makes the Human experience meaningful? Let's Imagine the alternative… Let's imagine you were Immortal, and unable to die, by any means. In the early years, after you discover your immortality, you would be ecstatic. You would […]
November 5, 2015
Does anyone notice that his/her quality of writing diminishes through the course of NaNoWriMo?
Answer by Thaddeus Howze: Quality may have taken a hit. But that's not the problem. It's your enthusiasm you have to worry about. When you started, you were filled with the zeal of a new idea, a tale untold, trapped within you, ready finally to be freed with the thought of National Novel Writing Month […]
September 1, 2015
A Cage of Angels (1)
“It’s beautiful. Are you sure it can hold him?” “Yes. It is a Cage of Angels. It would be impossible for him to escape.” “It’s so small. I can barely see it.” “That’s the point. If a hundred of them can dance on the head of a pin, it takes millions to create this prison.” […]
August 8, 2015
May 5, 2015
Hunger
“After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.” — Ernest Shackleton A Tale of Hayward’s Reach It tore at her as a ravenous beast might; the hunger. She had never believed it could hurt so. Was this what it was […]
March 31, 2015
Questing
Seeking our source, our subsistence, survival, our solace, salvation the mazes of meaning between love and death —from “Cloudsong” by Sirette, called “the sister of Car” Chapter 1. To see if it flies On a red‑sand hillock under the northernmost Old Ser Mesa, Barrens Area 3, some sixteen miles out from New Ser Town in the year […]
March 18, 2015
Clifford Engram’s Paranormal Investigation Guide
Hey New Guy, If you’re planning on making a career as a PI (Paranormal Investigator) particularly if you’re planing on working with The Agency, you might want to keep some of these rules in mind. They have a three hundred page handbook of operational procedures but this is my short list of things I have found most […]
January 22, 2015
The Replacements
A secret government facility in the middle of someplace classified… “Are they supposed to do that?” “What?” “Use tools like that…” “Not in the design specs. But the adaptation is… interesting.” “What do you mean you didn’t design them that way? What did you think they were going to be doing that they would need […]
January 11, 2015
Dammit, I’m a science fiction writer – 2015!
MY ANNUAL WRITING and DESIGN PERFORMANCE SURVEY: 2014 At the end of every year I work anywhere, I gather information regarding my projects and accomplishments to track what I was able to get done. I compare it to the plan I started the year with and to see if I was successful. Now that I […]
October 23, 2014
Nervous Stomach
A Tale of the Twilight Continuum “Is there a problem, Ensign,” the captain’s voice rang out over the bustle of the command bridge. I could feel his eyes boring into the back of my head. I knew it had to be me he was talking to, I was nervous, fidgeting, fighting back the urge to […]
