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February 26, 2013
SIMaS Chapter 5 – Welcome to Megardia
His first thoughts upon waking was that he hoped he wouldn’t get brain damage from being knocked unconscious over and over, as had become his routine of late. Thankfully, he didn’t seem to coughing his lungs out this time. Nor did he seem to be restrained either.
In fact, he was on a bed. A very nice bed; the mattress wasn’t too stiff, but it also wasn’t so soft that he felt like he was being absorbed by the blob. The sheets were softer than any he’d ever felt, and the comforter laid over him...
In fact, he was on a bed. A very nice bed; the mattress wasn’t too stiff, but it also wasn’t so soft that he felt like he was being absorbed by the blob. The sheets were softer than any he’d ever felt, and the comforter laid over him...
February 24, 2013
Descendants #69 – One Week Chp. 2
This entry is part 41 of 41 in the series CurrentWednesday
Nothing important happened today ~ King George III, diary entry of July 4, 1776
The quote popped into Laurel’s head for no particular reason as she stepped out of her shower and started wrapping her sopping hair in a towel. It was all the more random because she hated that quote. People brought it up as if it illustrated some kind of point and made them look the clever one for coming up with it.
She threw on her favorite fluffy, white ba...
Nothing important happened today ~ King George III, diary entry of July 4, 1776
The quote popped into Laurel’s head for no particular reason as she stepped out of her shower and started wrapping her sopping hair in a towel. It was all the more random because she hated that quote. People brought it up as if it illustrated some kind of point and made them look the clever one for coming up with it.
She threw on her favorite fluffy, white ba...
February 21, 2013
Dear Aspiring Writers… 3: Dirty Tricks You Should Know
Probably the first thing you learn when you stop writing papers for Lit classes and start writing things for public consumption is that a lot of the lessons you learned there were bullshit. Things just read better when you sometimes break Big Important Rules like not stating a sentence with ‘and’, ‘but’ or ‘or’. Character dialogue seems artificial and stilted when everyone is speaking with perfect grammar. And no one outside of a classroom setting has ever cared about split infinitives.
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February 19, 2013
Descendants: LA #18 – Fiends and Falsehood Part 6
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Descendants: LA Volume 2The SUV was silent as they pulled drove off and remained that way until they were well on their way along the interstate.
“So… that’s it then?” Felix was trying to hide his disappointment in just how little they’d learned from the trip. “Now we know D3I somehow knew where you were going to arrive and were able to wait for you. That might mean they made it happen, or it might not, really. I’d hate to say it guys, but without faces...
“So… that’s it then?” Felix was trying to hide his disappointment in just how little they’d learned from the trip. “Now we know D3I somehow knew where you were going to arrive and were able to wait for you. That might mean they made it happen, or it might not, really. I’d hate to say it guys, but without faces...
February 17, 2013
Descendants #69 – One Week Chp.1
This entry is part 40 of 40 in the series Current[This issue takes place one hour after Descendants Special #6]
Tuesday
Today had been a big day, but a mixed bag in Alloy’s reckoning. The marina and surrounding neighborhoods had taken a pounding that would take weeks if not months to repair, but news had come in from Mayfield General that there had been no life threatening injuries thanks to the intervention of the Descendants.
Warpstar had escaped, but without achieving his goal of gaining cont...
Tuesday
Today had been a big day, but a mixed bag in Alloy’s reckoning. The marina and surrounding neighborhoods had taken a pounding that would take weeks if not months to repair, but news had come in from Mayfield General that there had been no life threatening injuries thanks to the intervention of the Descendants.
Warpstar had escaped, but without achieving his goal of gaining cont...
February 14, 2013
How To Use Your World
Fair warning: the next series of blog posts is going to be ass backward. Namely, I’m going to be talking about using the world you’ve built, then talking about worldbuilding. Confusing? Sure. But I write these things on the fly based on what’s on my mind in a particular week.
This week, I’m in the home stretch of reading Mainspring by Jay Lake . The thing about Mainspring is that it isn’t a bad book, it just isn’t a good book; and its sin is failure to make use of the amazing world that Lake cr...
This week, I’m in the home stretch of reading Mainspring by Jay Lake . The thing about Mainspring is that it isn’t a bad book, it just isn’t a good book; and its sin is failure to make use of the amazing world that Lake cr...
February 12, 2013
The Spider’s Seven #16: The Dearly Departed
Aidan Beck sat on the cot he’d been afforded in his cell, head low between his shoulders, hands on his knees. Anansi and his people had outfitted him with clothes; mostly black wife-beaters and simple khaki pants with the kind of slippers nurses wore in hospitals.
His eyes were closed, but his ears and nose were working just fine, as was everything else. Whatever Anansi had done to steal his vampric strength and speed, he’d missed the senses. Even through the door, he smelled his dinner arrivi...
His eyes were closed, but his ears and nose were working just fine, as was everything else. Whatever Anansi had done to steal his vampric strength and speed, he’d missed the senses. Even through the door, he smelled his dinner arrivi...
February 10, 2013
Descendants Special #6 – Things to Come (Featuring The Whitecoat)
This entry is part 39 of 40 in the series CurrentI read enough comics as a kid to know that once I decided to become a costumed adventurer and go out at night to put my boot in the collective asses of the criminal element, my life would never be normal.
Actually, I stepped over the ‘normal’ threshold by being born a descendant with an incredible immune system. Then I stomped all over it by accidentally getting infected with a strain of nanomachines that have restructured my biology above and b...
Actually, I stepped over the ‘normal’ threshold by being born a descendant with an incredible immune system. Then I stomped all over it by accidentally getting infected with a strain of nanomachines that have restructured my biology above and b...
February 9, 2013
Front Page Update
Just a notice that there have been some changes to make the site more usable.
The Latest Story and Latest Article sections are up top now because that’s what most people care about. News has been moved down below like it would be on a webcomic site. Support links are now part of the front page instead of cluttering up the menu.
February 7, 2013
Dear Aspiring Writers… (Part 2)
And so we come again to a segment I suspect I’ll be visiting quite a bit in the future, the ‘Dear Aspiring Writers’ post series where I talk about the habits of relative newbies (and vets who don’t know better) and the writing psychology behind them.
As I said in the last installment , I’m by no means a professional, a veteran, or a master at the craft and I’m not going to pretend to be. I have my own ongoing sins and we’ll probably look at those too in posts to come. What I am is a guy who con...
