No Excuses

Leaves, sweater weather (cute outfits), quiet walks through the cemetery, cozy warm if oddly flavored beverages, and of course NaNoWriMo. These are the things that define my fall. Guess which one brings me here today? I can’t help it, every year it’s that little ray of optimistic hope and I fall victim to it every […]

What I AM Doing

I think it’s obvious enough to you, by the apparent abandonment of this blog, what I am NOT doing. That being writing, or making any other decisive move to bring this story to reality. To which, I make a case for that which (as the title would suggest) I AM doing. I AM reading like […]

Atonement and Reason

I find the villains to be a much more dynamic breed. Certainly the most, shall we say, human of the lot. You will find, as far as my tale goes, there are no ‘true’ or rather traditional villains. I find them boring and too simple to understand. Some event causes them great pain, which they […]

Mysterious Mysteries: Chronology 101

To anyone out there that might actually be interested in the premise of my story thus far, even with such piddly bits as I have supplied you, it might comfort you to know that even though the writing is not producing itself as well as it should the brain from which it spawns is still […]

Proust on Irony

As previously mentioned, I seemed to be having trouble connecting with the character who will be leading the charge. Him being Malozqui ‘Mal”icious dLak, the cranky pants bane of my existence as an author. So rigid like ice and ready to shatter I did not know what to do with him. Enter Proust via his questionnaire. […]