Today’s blog continues my long-neglected satirical fantasy, In The Land of the Penny Gnomes Will stared at Sindy. Up until this point she hadn’t been interested in what Bug and Nobody were up to. In fact, she’d been outwardly hostile to their efforts. But something seemed to have softened her opinion. She didn’t pause after…
Month: December 2016
Writing Update
As yesterday’s post explained why I write, I thought today I’d take some time to share some updates on what I write. Welcome To The Valleys Since I complete the first/web-draft of Welcome to the Valleys life has exploded. I simply have not had time to sit down with the story and clean it up…
Why I Write
This week on of my regular readers, whose blog you should check out, asked me an interesting question. What got you into writing, anyway? Specifically, she wanted to know because writing fiction is not something typically looked upon fondly by others in “my profession 1.” This got me thinking, and led me to begin with…
“A” is for Apple
As I stumbled around the kitchen this morning, I saw an interesting glint of light in my peripheral vision. The previous night my wife had brought home a load of fruit 1, and as the morning sunlight reached its auspices the colors really popped. So, after I ground my coffee 2 I went and grabbed…
CopyClip 2
One of the most essential tools for productivity snobs is a clipboard manager or clipboard buffer. Normally, a computer clipboard can store only one bit of copied information, which is over-written when a new bit of data is copied. A clipboard buffer stores a stream of information which can be later accessed and pasted back…
Unpacking Arsenal Reimagined
This was mostly a plot point scene, but there’s some interesting character reveals hidden in there as well. Let’s unpack. Noodles and Cheese Nobody ages his own cheese, and doesn’t put sauce on his noodles. Both of these traits spring from my own personality, which kinda reveals who my primary mirror is in this story….
