Defiant

Reader! You flatter me with your presence, Karibu. Today I had a lot of cooking to do and decided it would be nice to finally find out what Defiance was all about. In case you’ve been asleep at the Sci-Fi wheel, the story of Defiance (the new name of St. Louis, Missouri) is set in…

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Bee-bee-dee Boop!

Are you doing okay? Wanna talk about it?  Leave your comment. Today is a smoggy day and I’m grateful to have and be near my computer. It also means that I’ve got to find a way to be productive and allow my fingers to speak for my brain. Telepathy will come soon enough. If we…

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Would You Survive an Encounter?

Hello Readers! I hope today was a productive day for you. I managed to finish my experiment with Adobe Premiere. One of my superpowers is teaching myself to use new software (and hardware) and then searching the internet for the experts who have free tutorials online, so I can learn things I didn’t even know…

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Whence Cometh Thine Inspiration?

Hola! Today is a sunny day and I hope that wherever you are you get to enjoy it! Last night inspiration hit for a new story. An exciting story. A GREAT tale. I quickly relayed the information to my co-author for all things exciting and got a few things down. It got me thinking about inspiration and the…

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SUNday

No post today. The sun is out.

Nit Pickers Unite!

Reader! You’re here! How are you doing today? I had a wonderful night last night, racing for the movie theatre to watch Oblivion with Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman. I enjoyed watching the movie, then I hit rock bottom this morning and found stuff to grumble about. Don’t you just love it? SPOILERS AHEAD!! Thankfully,…

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Brave New World

Happy Friday Reader! I hope your plans for the weekend are shaping up to be wonderful! When I was in my early teens my younger sister found a book in the study that was a curious read. For reasons unknown to us, an uncle had left all his University books with us after he finished…

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Writing the Future

Reader! Welcome back. How is your day going? So, I finally did it. Joined a group of like minded people focusing on something big and grand and good. I signed up to join the Hieroglyph Project, which, in the words of Neal Stephenson, is  to …  get SF writers to contribute pieces to an anthology. These pieces would all be…

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Evolution of Language

Hey Reader, I’m sorry to say, my greeting isn’t quite as enthusiastic as it should be this afternoon because I have come to a realization. I’m a fuddy duddy. I’m an English language fuddy duddy and have a difficult time keeping up with some of the trends in popular speech. Something in my head screeches…

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World Building

Hello! Happy Tuesday! One of my favorite writing exercises is building Worlds. It feels like a child-like thing to do sometimes, making up names for stuff that no one has ever seen, but it is incredibly fulfilling. It makes me think that within each one of us is an innate sense that is only satisfied…

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