Important Thought

So now you know how you’re going to write. You’ve got your pen or your keyboard. What now? Most Craft-Of-Writing books are full of useless advice. Don’t put in excess information (info dump). Yeah, obviously. But if you’re a beginner, how do you recognize what’s excess and what’s not? Don’t…

I was asked a very long time ago to post some advice about writing for beginning authors. This is more difficult than it sounds. Writing is… Okay, I’m not going to say it’s a mystical experience that can’t be pinned down, or that it’s something one does and cannot be…

Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead with a black cat Adam Howden (voice actor for Anders in Dragon Age 2 and many other voices, like the Ostagar Prisoner, in Dragon Age Origins) is known to have two black cats. One of whom is Goose: This is Adam Howden: There is also:…

I think this is a beautiful group, and I wish more jobs were given to plus-size models.

Jason Spisak property of EniJoi on dA I already posted this epiphany on tumblr. But why not here too, right? I just noticed that many of the drawings of Tom Hiddleston’s Loki that I like best, such as the one above, bear a striking resemblance to Jason Spisak, the voice…

How do you put a value on a digital book? It doesn’t seem like this should be the conundrum it is. Paper books are priced to cover the amount it cost to produce them plus a markup for both the publisher’s and the bookseller’s profit. Ebooks should be priced the…

How many of you are on GoodReads? Or any of the few other sites that allow you to keep track of what you’ve read and share your reviews with friends? I’m on GoodReads and I’ve got a question for ya:  Do you only rate books you’ve read recently? Or within…

Here I am, in my long underwear because winter is chilly, waiting for my coffee to awaken me of a morning. Well, no, obviously this isn’t really me. It’s Hilda, the recurring character drawn by artist Duane Bryers. I found these images on tumblr but I’m pretty certain they came…

I originally published this Veteran’s Day/Remembrance Day post 2 years ago. Figure it could use a re-run, especially as this Remembrance Day is 11-11-11-11.  ——————— The Red Poppy is the symbol of Remembrance Day, 11 November. Remembrance Day was started in 1919 as Armistice Day, to honor the end of The Great War. The War to End Wars.Which came to…