One week into 2008 and this is only my second post. Were you one of those who was checking every day to see if I’d resumed the daily posts? Do you miss me yet?
Alas, all is not lost. I’ve been writing — as always — just not here, very much. In fact [...]

December 16
I came across an image the other day that was some art — or a screen-cap — or something from the Lord of the Rings. Remember in the first movie when they are in the boats going along the river? And the river takes them between the two massive statues of some [...]

December 10
I was listening to a writing podcast the other day and they were talking about doing character development through the use of whitespace. That is to say, by filling in the spaces around a character, one is left with a vacant spot where the character would fit. At first I thought that [...]

December 9
Every year about this time I start to think about New Years Resolutions. Why, you may ask, considering I am actually fairly lousy at keeping them? I think the answer is simply this: optimism. One day something — anything — is going to stick, and my good intentions will pay off. [...]

or, two quips on writing…
First, I mentioned a few posts back that my writing was not — exactly — going ignored. At least not in a permanent sense. I was going to elaborate on that a little more. I’ve been poking away at a something I’ve loosely defined as A Tapestry of [...]

I’m not writing. After years of guilty Novembers, pursuing the banality and pure quantity of NaNoWriMo, I declined to participate this month on a mere handful of excuses. They are…
1) I should really be working on my other writing project. That particular effort is not forgotten. Really. Admittedly, it is not [...]

I came across an interesting blog post this morning called “100 Blog Topics I Hope YOU Write“, wherein the author of one particular (apparently popular) blog challenges his readers to answer a list of topics that HE would like others to give him responses to. Not in comments. Not in emails. Write [...]

I stumbled upon an interesting link the other day; It’s a simple little web page that generates ideas to help get one started on writing a blog post, when one has not the foggiest of what to write about. I clicked there just a moment ago to search for inspiration and this was the [...]

funkypig: I’m disappointed, you know. There has been oodles of opportunity, yet you squander.
8R4D: Squander? That’s unfair.
funkypig: But you’ve written nothing since you’ve been on vacation. Nothing. Nil. Nada. Nicht.
8R4D: I get it. I see where you going with that.
funkypig: You were going to be, ahem, caught up by the [...]

Going on a ten day vacation didn’t help things. The writing has been in a state of stalemate since we left, and (having given myself an extended deadline of the end of May to catch up) I have yet to get myself back into metaverse-creation-mode.
Conflicting priorities? Maybe.
The problem, I think, is plot. It [...]

I’ve been flushing the iPod. I’ve downloaded a half-dozen new albums in the past few weeks in an effort to re-energize my listening collection, gradually upgrading from the nineties pop-alt that has been melting my brain as of late. The plan, thus far, has been to surf the archives of iTunes for albums that [...]

writing can be a very odd thing. This becomes even more true when one partakes in a sporadic writing project with a vague idea, a vague ending, and the intention to let the ideas work themselves out and into the firmament. I’ve strictly forbidden myself from doing edits of any kind, small or large, [...]