Rantings and musing, about fantasy and other unrelated topics such as watches and bbqing.
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.
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?
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 