How To Write Time Travel – Unbound Worlds – a fun article on how to write travel and steal time machines Once Upon a Time – Jack Heckel – a fairy tale twist on your favorite series And then we have the infamous #Decoherence Drinking Game. Grab some water (or…
When someone says the word ‘balance’ we tend to think of checkbooks or standing on one foot. It doesn’t conjure up an immediate image of writing, probably because writers usually say “pace” or “plot element” and the word balance doesn’t enter into the equation. I want to change that today…
Back in June I released the first chapter of EVEN VILLAINS FALL IN LOVE in an intro anthology from the SFR Brigade titled PORTALS:Volume 4 (we’re up to 7 now I think). I didn’t really think much of it until this week while I was in a post-book shambles. I…
I’ll be honest, I’ll believe in fairies before I will in muses. I may have had a muse, back when I was in fourth grade or so, and then I locked it down in the dungeon chained to a wall and let it die. It’s skeleton is right next to…
You know me, any excuse for a few minutes of peace and quiet is a good one. Sleep researchers have been working for years to explain the benefits of napping. Does this scenario sound familiar… You’ve been at the computer for three hours straight. Between checking e-mail, balancing the checkbook,…
Is the female Agent MacKenzie Sam and Mac’s daughter? One clever reader noticed this line in CONVERGENCE POINT. Could Agent MacKenzie who befriends the swamp pirates be a future daughter belonging to Sam and Mac? That is one logical explanation. There are a few others (including the sad truth…
Every now and then (about chapter 15 of every novel) I get bogged down in the details. Somehow I become physically unable to let any minute of my character’s life go unaccounted. I become a secret stalker documenting their every move. FMC woke up, took three steps, found her purple…
Since arriving in Alaska in early 2015 one thing I’ve been absolutely keen to do is see the beluga whales at Beluga Point. Just a few miles south of Anchorage proper, along the Seward Highway, there is a turn off near an outcropping of stone where -rumor had it –…
Over the past few weeks I’ve blogged about the basics of an ecosystem, the four simple needs of an ecosystem, and apex predators. Today, Brooke Johnson is going to kick off a series of guest posts about civilization building. She’s going to bridge the gap from basic ecosystem to flourishing…
Everyone knows the story of the pottery class divided in two groups… one was graded by how many pots they made, the other half was graded on how good the pot was. Inevitably, the students who were creating for quantity created better quality pots. Why? Because the more you do…