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Imagine you were born with a suit of clothes attached to you. It grew with you. it never needed washing. And in such a way, you imagined it a part of you, part of who you were. "I'm so and so, and my suit is yellow with a frill around the middle." It wouldn't... Continue Reading →
Ugly - sorting out if your writing has reached the point that it is a business and not a hobby (for tax purposes.) If you have a DBA or are registered as an LLC (in other words, if you are a company already) it's easy - you are a business, and you can skip the... Continue Reading →
Welcome back to your 21st Century Manufactured Crisis! According to many, mostly those in power, the world is quickly sliding into the nether regions of the 831st Hell dimension, where palpable, icy darkness fights endlessly with scorching fire, where the food fights back, all stomachs are empty, and children form bands of feral, semi-barbarians and... Continue Reading →
Let's start with a singular truth many of us don't think about when considering the publishing industry. It consists of much more than the publishing houses. There are distributors, like Simon & Schuster which is now on the auction block. There are the various contractors who work for publishers, including editors, proofreaders and even those... Continue Reading →
Yes, well, we’d all like a do-over, especially knowing what we know from the first time, the second time. My life would be less fraught with disasters and bad decisions. Of course, I’d be someone else. They say all this shit is character building and if that is true I now have a large enough... Continue Reading →
This year, I decided I would write every day - and it didn't matter if it was 5 words of fiction or 5,000, as long as it was every single day. No, I didn't decide this on January 1st; that would have been far too convenient. I decided to do it on January 18th, right... Continue Reading →
In this second part of my series where I am making mistakes in public, I'm getting a coloring book print-ready. I'm using the new-to-me program Affinity Publisher to lay it out, and I am using Affinity Photo to get the hand-drawn art ready for layout. Something I learned last time I did this, with Inktail... Continue Reading →
Violence, and violent action, can be difficult to portray. Yet the ability to do so is a necessary part of the fiction writer's repertoire. Violence is a part of the human condition. If we hairless apes have learned anything in the last 5000 years of existence on planet Earth, it is that violence is a... Continue Reading →
Without going into the boring details, it’s been a rough month. Not that I’m complaining. After all, unlike pretty much everyone else in the country, I planned to be stuck at home for all of March. So, no gripes there. And while everyone else has been going stir-crazy, I’ve been going passive. Lacking the energy... Continue Reading →
Here in PA life continues to be nuts. Supermarkets are... interesting. Items just drop out of stock seemingly at random - with the exception of toilet paper, which I've yet to see in stock. Thankfully we at Casa Paulk are well stocked right now. The Husband is back at work, although we don't know how... Continue Reading →
Mad Genius Club 