• Female Leads in Science Fiction Novels

    In a discussion with book reviewer Shaun Duke on Twitter, he made an interesting comment.
    He said that he couldn’t think of any lead female characters in Science Fiction books. When I tried to respond right away I realized all the books that were coming to my mind were more Fantasy or Speculative than true Science [...]

  • World Building with a Magic 8 Ball

    So perhaps I wasn’t as ready to start a new novel as I thought, but I needed to do something while I wait to see what happens to my novel “Ice Debt” (see this post – update 7).
    But I was stuck. I love building worlds but it wasn’t coming to me this time.
    I tried the [...]

  • Chinese Whisperings Promo

    Just wanted to give you all a quick update on the the anthology that holds my 5th published short story. It was going to be released on December 1 2009, but due to unforeseen events and deadlines the release date has been pushed back to January 1 2009.
    I’d rather the editors and owners do this, [...]

  • The 4 Year Plan

    4 years ago, on August 23 2006, I started blogging. It was a way of telling the universe that I was committed to writing – for real this time.
    I started on blogger, and you can read from the beginning up until August 2008 (when I moved to WordPress) @ http://dustandstrangerthings.blogspot.com/ – but only until the [...]

 

 

Season’s Greetings

Monday, December 21, 2009    Comments

Well the count down has begun. A little over three days until Christmas eve and whether you celebrate the day or not we all have a few vacation days coming up in advance of the new year.
Just wanted to take this moment to wish you all a wonderful end of the year.
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NaNoWriMo: I WON!!!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009    Comments

So if you’ve been reading along, you know that on Thursday, November 24, I re-decided to win NaNoWriMo. And when I posted my re-decision on November 26, I had to write 25,000 words (half of the monthly total) in 5 days.
Now to prove my ineptitude at keeping to a daily schedule I’ve posted my word [...]

NaNoWriMo What Now?

Friday, November 27, 2009    Comments

Just a quick note (yes another one).
I’ve just hit the 30,000 word mark on my novel. Only 20,000 more to go in three days.
And as daunting as that sounds, my bigger problem is this:
I’m currently standing with MC1 teaming up with MC2 to spy on the bad guys and find a way to defeat them [...]

Chinese Whisperings Promo

Friday, November 27, 2009    Comments

Just wanted to give you all a quick update on the the anthology that holds my 5th published short story. It was going to be released on December 1 2009, but due to unforeseen events and deadlines the release date has been pushed back to January 1 2009.
I’d rather the editors and owners do this, [...]

Week 2 & 3: NaNoWriMo

Thursday, November 26, 2009    Comments

I have no fancy stats for you today. Only an apology that I haven’t continued to update you on my novel writing progress.
Essentially, my week  two word count total looked like this:
Days 8-13 = 0
Day 14 = 1000
And my week three word count total looked like this:
Day 15 = 2000
Day 16 = 1760
Days 17 -21 [...]

Dreaming of Stories

Tuesday, November 17, 2009    Comments

I had a dream last night that I was standing in front of a class as a presenter. A student asked me the age old question everyone asks a writer, “where do you get your ideas from”?
I answered that ideas are everywhere and one student in the front laughed at me saying I was avoiding [...]



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