Mar 9, 2019Don’t Force or Fight InspirationThis is not at all the blog post I had planned, which does in fact perfectly coincide with the subject of inspiration. If one is to...
Feb 28, 2019The Creation of Ayr (Nahu)Long ago, the ancestors slept in the before, an ocean with no beginning and no end. But they grew restless in their endless sleep, so...
Feb 20, 2019Chekhov’s Gun is a Double-Edged SwordI hope you like mixed metaphors, because we have a doozy for you today, revolving around Anton Chekhov and his metaphoric gun. I’ve been...
Feb 6, 2019The Glass Dagger Is Live and Drunken RamblingsOne of the nice things of living on the West Coast (other than it literally being paradise) is that most of the US/ Europe is already...
Feb 1, 2019Random Things You Do Come Launch WeekI think it was two days ago that the crushing reality that I had a book coming out in under a week hit. It hurt. Mentally I had "work on...
Jan 26, 2019Writing Short Stories Is HardI’m just going to file that title away in my folder of “obvious statements everyone instinctively knows,” but I thought I’d spend a bit...
Jan 18, 2019Kindle Giveaway Case Study #3 (the half-assed one)Even though I swore after my second giveaway that it would be my last (here's my first one too), I ended up doing one last December that...
Jan 7, 20192019 Update and Xmas From HellI looked at my blog today and realized it’s been over a month since my last update, so I guess we’re due. That ol’ New Year came and...
Dec 5, 2018Take a Day for Your DisappointmentsIt’s been about 48 hours now since I decided to scrap the launch of book three, which would have been a week from now. The long and the...
Nov 29, 2018Ode to 90s Indie FilmsI don’t think I’ve made any secret that I’m a child of the 80s. But I was a teenager during the 90s, which really did a lot to shape me...