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January 10, 2014
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,900 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]
January 9, 2014
Whaddup 2014: Recaps, Resolutions, and Hopeless Dreams
I’m going to take a leaf out of Kevin Malone’s book and say that 2013 was a roller coaster. I realize that I haven’t really been consistent posting on here (but honestly…who is? Seriously everyone I know who has a blog actually sucks at keeping a blogging schedule). In case you were wondering, here’s a […]
December 18, 2013
Movie Review–The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug
First off can I say, and this may turn a lot of people off, but can we all just take a minute and chill the heck out about how The Hobbit doesn’t follow the books? Obviously Peter Jackson made it more than apparent that he was basically throwing the book out the window in the […]
December 16, 2013
Me and Emma at the Hobbit premier
So my girlfriend and I dressed up for the hobbit premier. Her dress is an authentic austrian dirndl and she made the flower crown herself. She also crocheted the beard hat and sewed the coat out of upholstery and some other artsy stuff. It was a great night, review of the movie coming soon! 
December 14, 2013
The Magic (and pain) of Revision
I’m a senior this year and my thesis was a short story that is hopefully my ticket into grad school. Usually after I finish a big project I like to post the first and last revision of the first page, partially as a teaching tool and partially to convince myself all the pain was worth […]
November 30, 2013
Practical Writing Advice from Chuck Palahniuk
Reblogged from Marmaladia: I stumbled upon this fine piece of advice from Chuck Palahniuk this past weekend and I just can't resist sharing it. It's nice to balance out the "Just do it!" kind of fluffy advice with something as concrete and specific as he offers. “In six seconds, you’ll hate me.
But in six […]
November 23, 2013
Making Characters Pro-Active
This is probably the most helpful video I’ve seen ever about writing a good character. All you aspiring writers out there should check it out! 
November 22, 2013
Help Continuum get to #1
Hey followers! My book, Continuum: Fables of the Fallen is currently #18 in its category on the kindle store. Click here to head on over and get a free download and help college students become known! Also, while you’re there, follow this link to download the latest version of Continuum: Until Dawn for only .99 […]
Continuum Discount and Promotion: Time’s almost up
From Friday, November 22nd at 8am Pacific Time to Monday, November 25 there will be a special promotion on Continuum: Fables of the Fallen and Continuum: Until Dawn. For those days only, Fables of the Fallen will be completely free on Amazon Kindle and Until dawn will be discounted to .99 cents for the first 36 hours and […]
November 20, 2013
Continuum Christmas Special: Buy One, Get One Free
From Friday, November 22nd at 8am Pacific Time to Monday, November 25 there will be a special promotion on Continuum: Fables of the Fallen and Continuum: Until Dawn. For those days only, Fables of the Fallen will be completely free on Amazon Kindle and Until dawn will be discounted to .99 cents for the first […]
