September 16: September Write Brain (Getting ready for the 2009 Pikes Peak Writers Contest)September 17-20: Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Trade ShowOctober 3-4: Author Fest of the Rockies, Manitou SpringsOctober 18: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict with Deb DixonOctober 21: October Write Brain (Story Structure/Daniel Abraham)October 24-26: MileHiCon in Denver (GOH: Jim Butcher) I am skipping […]

You may have noticed I like to come up with theories. Personality tests? Love them. I love to put things into categories, organize life by philosophies, etc. Whenever I look up my personality in personality-test books, I come up with the category “likes to make up personality tests.”* Anyway, I think I’ve come up with

One: he has a novel, Pair of Bullets being serialized in the poker magazine Blind Straddle. It’s a pay site. Free sample of the story. Two: he’s discovered a gene for bad science writing: Given that everyone surveyed had been writing about science for at least a week, the team suggests that having multiple copies

I’m finally making more progress with Alien Blue; once again, writer’s block defeated by figuring out I needed to stop beating my head against the wall that my outline ran me up against, and go around. I jotted something down for Bill to say to his listener just after his “black moment.” I ended up

So I went with a group of girls from work to the Crooked Still concert in town. Never heard of them before. OOoooOOOooo. Here’s a good one of Happy Bob Dylan on the banjo.

Here’s my best guess at the drink I made up at Margie and Dave’s house on Saturday* is as follows: Persephone’s tempation———————-1 1/2 shots of tequila1/2 shot of triple sec1/4 c pomegranate juiceTwo twists of lime2 t sugarsugared cranberries (optional) Add ice and stir. Doing it again, I’d probably peel a lime and add the

I tell you, I am obsessed with the whole “Weird West” idea,* basically, South Dakota ghost stories. I sat down this morning to brainstorm NaNoWriMo ideas for November (since I became vehemently discouraged with the previous idea while reading The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, by Chris Wooding; it wasn’t the same plot but motivated by

via Very Good Taste. Here’s a chance for a little interactivity for all the bloggers out there. Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food –

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I really should have parceled these out, one a week. Unfortunately, when I do that kind of thing, I start revising too much, or I forget to finish the damned thing. Last one 🙂 What’s the difference between major and minor characters? Not a whole lot. The main character contains the story conflict; the major