Rantings and musing, about fantasy and other unrelated topics such as watches and bbqing.
Alone and in a foreign new land, the colony could begin to heal, but their ruler had already perished. The bee hive I keep with my wife was moved to a new location back in June and from what we could tell the hive seemed much better off in the new location. There was more… Continue reading Heart of the Colony
In the dark theater and smelling of butter, I sat watching The Amazing Spider Man 2 with my wife. The movie was fine as Fox Spiderman films go neither horrible nor the next big thing. As one of the characters was once again in mortal danger, my wife leaned over to me and asked me,… Continue reading The Slippery Slope of Slow Pacing.
There hasn't been anything new here for a while and I've surely forgotten how to use some of the functions and features on WordPress, but I needed to take a bit of break from blogging weekly while I was writing my last novel. I've finished my 4th manuscript now and am immensely proud of it.… Continue reading There and Back Again
Instead of writing this weekend, much of my time was spent with family, and most of my energy was spent caring for the hive my wife and I keep. It is interesting and fun to have a bee hive we care for, it can be tiring at times though. That has never been more clear… Continue reading No Sleep When There are Bees to Keep
Wearing a watch makes me feel like I'm part of something, a special club of sorts. A club that enjoys the time that they are given and observes it as it passes. The watch doesn't even need to be anything fancy it could be something that costs thirty dollars. The price of a watch shouldn't… Continue reading What Watches Tell Me Besides the Time
If I've learned one thing while writing consistently for the last couple years it is that books are a lot like beans. I'm not referring to your standard canned beans, baked or seasoned otherwise. Beans that are hard, dry, and inedible are the sorts of beans I'm referring to. There is a process to making… Continue reading All Good Things Take Time, Including Writing
There is nothing like closing a great book when you've finished it. The sense of accomplishment is profound to me. When an ending is great it makes a book even better. They are the final words that the author has for the reader. They should mean something to the story, the author, or the reader,… Continue reading What’s at the End?
When I was much much younger, Harry Potter was the possibly the most influential book of my life. Not that it influenced me, but that it influenced and inspired so many. I was raised in a very conservative Christian home and Harry Potter was not something that my mother would ever let pass through the… Continue reading Harry Potter and What I Missed as a Child
Photo by Ann H on Pexels.com I finished my third manuscript yesterday. It was my most ambitious book that I've written. More POV characters, a more involved story, and more depth to the lore that I've had in anything previous. It is by no means complete, but I've given myself a good place to begin… Continue reading Where the book ends
A Few Things After Words 