Progress
Catching Up, Caterpillars, & Condensing
The tooth pain is entirely gone now, a massive improvement from a few weeks ago.
Continue reading →True Crime, Spooky Cemetery, & Some Chapters Are Way Easier Than Others
"Are those three things in the title related?!" I vociferated, interrobangedly.
Continue reading →Phonographic Visions Launched & Some Chapters Are Way Harder Than Others
I've been working on a new short fiction project and just launched it on YouTube: Phonographic Visions.
Continue reading →Even Dolls Have Conventions & Short Fiction
I recently learned that there are doll conventions.
Continue reading →Foggy Nights & Oversized Spoons
We've been having some pretty foggy nights here in North Texas lately.
Continue reading →Revision Test Results & The Real Unreal
I've been eyeing some revisions for my first novel for a few months, and I decided to test my ideas in the first chapter.
Continue reading →Novel Querying & Experimentation
Querying a novel makes you look hard at everything, especially your opening pages.
Continue reading →Cooking Blood for the Holidays & Next Novel Planning
Cooking blood is one of the worst smells.
Continue reading →Viking Raids & Barbie Really Is Made to Move
Now that the newsletters are at a slower pace, I've had time to catch up on a few things.
Continue reading →Texas Coyotes & Biweekly Newsletters
There are a couple of coyotes hanging around my part of Texas.
Continue reading →Project Planning & Finding My Spirit Anime-ngel
Planning new fiction projects takes a lot of time and a lot of thought.
Continue reading →Stormy Skies, Cloudflare, & New Projects
Texas has some pretty awesome storms. I don't think I've mentioned that yet.
Continue reading →Lovecraftian Selfies & Novel Querying
In case you haven't heard, AI is getting pretty good at generating images.
Continue reading →Happy Halloween, Creepy Cups, & Query Drafts
🎃🎃🎃🎃🔮🍬🍭🍎🥀🧙♀️🧙♂️🧛♀️🧛♂️🧟♀️🧟♂️🧞♀️🧞♂️🧜♀️🧜♂️🧝♀️🧝♂️🐺🌕🦉🐍🍂🔥📖🗡️⚰️🕯️💀🖤🎃🎃👻🦇🕸️🕷️🎉🖤🧡 That's pretty much all the emojis I could think of that are Halloween-related. We really need more of them.
Continue reading →Shotgun Plungers & Query Letters
I don't think it would be shocking to anyone if I said Texas loves guns. But did you know that Texas also loves gun-shaped things?
Continue reading →Sour Pickles & Glowing Zombie Poop
I grew up in the Southern United States (aka "the South"), but I've been away from it for many years. One of the things I noticed when moving back to the South...
Continue reading →Exploring Southern Nature
I grew up in the South, and like most places, Southern nature has a particular look and feel.
Continue reading →Art Is on the Walls
A house is not a home until all your walls are completely covered with art.
Continue reading →Unpacking the Essentials
You might think that unpacking clothing, acquiring food and drink, or setting up some kind of entertainment would be the thing to do when arriving at a new living space.
Continue reading →A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With
A co-conspirator with professional packing skills.
Continue reading →Tucson's Beautiful Nature, Killer Sunshine, & Journey to Texas
Tae and I have been in Tucson, Arizona, for a little over a year, and the nature here is still just as beautiful as when we arrived.
Continue reading →Purging, Packing, & a Bark Scorpion
Moving is always a great time to take a breath and assess your belongings before flinging them into a dumpster.
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