One of the great things about freelancing is the flexibility. If you’re not feeling well, have a family emergency, or have some other life event come up unexpectedly, you don’t have to call into a boss to explain what’s going on. The down side, of course, is resisting the temptation to slack off when you’re … Continue reading »
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Establishing Office Hours
People with traditional jobs and attending traditional schools understand the concept that you can’t take personal calls, engage in texting, answer personal email, or hang out on social media during work or class time. Although I work from home and attend school online, it is the same for me. Monday through Friday, from 7am to … Continue reading »
Developing A Writer’s Sketchbook
For Christmas my friend Steve at Alien Graphics sent me an intriguing present: a small, spiral-bound notebook filled with perforated, color-coded file cards. Knowing that I’m a DC Comics fan, he added vinyl Superman and Batman logos to it. He also made one for Katie with the silhouette of the Serenity from Firefly, one of … Continue reading »
How To Judge a Bookstore By Its Cafe
Call this a crazy theory, but I’ve spent enough time writing and working in bookstore cafes to have developed a theory: it is possibly to judge not only the quality, but overall health, of a bookstore by its cafe. Subject #1: Barnes & Noble Disclaimer: I worked for Barnes & Noble for four years, and … Continue reading »
I Sold a Short Story to Lovecraft eZine
It is official, I have sold a short story to the Lovecraft eZine. “The Weird Studies of Harley Warren” is Lovecraft’s “The Statement of Randolph Carter” as told by the other character in that story. It’s not necessary to have read Lovecraft’s version, but it helps. Writing this story was a lot of fun. I … Continue reading »
The Four Noble Truths of Plotting
There are a lot of ways to plot stories. You can search the internet and find dozens of them. For plotting roleplaying game adventures, and basic adventure stories in general, simple is better. The less complicated your plot structure, the fewer the number of things that can go wrong. I recently hit upon using the … Continue reading »
