“The beast of the gulch is on the move. It hunts without reason. It kills without eating. Its prey is the sound of a beating heart. Within the shallows of the gulch dwells death.”
Book 9 of The Kingdom’s Disdain is available now!
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A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Special Effects Chest pain Is a constant A wall between myself and the body There is a chronology that I am separated from as I hover Above the flesh, noncommittal Like a prince who can’t make up his mind You’re falling into the water You’re stumbling
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I was all psyched to write today, then I realized I had a doctor’s appointment in the morning and a work meeting in the afternoon. Now my time is mostly up. My apartment is also kind of a mess, and I probably need to clean it up. Such is life. I’m trying to find a
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I’m temporarily changing my system. I got a little bit stuck in Chapter 5, so I decided I needed to focus a bit more on pre-planning. From now on, for every day I spend writing, I’m going to spend another day vigorously outlining in detail. So far that’s going well. I have an outline for
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The headaches are hunting me like a shark hunting blood.I must hide from them. I can’t stay here long, here in the written word, or they’ll settle on my location and perch in my skull. Lately the idea of marketing and interacting with other writers to build connections feels very exhausting. Sometimes my energy is
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Happy National Donut Day! I forgot to get a donut, and frankly at this moment I don’t really feel like I want one. I’m in Dinner Mode. I want a Meal. I’ll be running a new dungeons and dragons game this weekend. That doesn’t directly tie into Beach Knight, but it’s the same world, and
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I’ve been getting small but important creative work done. I’m building characters, backgrounds, settings and themes . . . but yeah . . . chapter 5 is still mostly not done. A July release date definitely seems unlikely. It’s a gray, rainy day out today, a nice spring/fall window in the summer. I’m thankful for
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The fog is clearing and I’m excited about my story again. My only real issue is that I’m at work, and work is busy. I love my job, but my soul is being depleted. I pray there are enough particles of Me left to write a few hundred words at Starbucks after I leave. Finding
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Hello. I have a migraine today, so this is all the writing I’ll be doing. Got out of bed at 3PM to make sure I got a blog post done. That’s pretty much the limit of my power today. I’ve been trying to read more fantasy so the tones and concepts can naturally flow into
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I worked on a side story today. There’s a background narrative in Beach Knight that takes place through a series of flashbacks at the start of each chapter. Early on, I didn’t really know what it was going to be, but I’ve got it figured out now, and I’m writing it like a serial in
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Happy June and happy Pride Month! If you’re gay, be gay! If you aren’t, enjoy the weather!I’m still a little bit repulsed by the idea of writing anything else, but I will say a lot of ideas are swirling around in my headspace. Some of my concepts are becoming more solid and meaningful, like I’m
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