Valentine’s Day Sucks… For single people, Valentine’s Day. Â It’s just a rule – you’re reminded, nonstop for a couple of weeks, that you’re single. Â And there’s no real relief – if you’re around ANYONE, you end up with a reminder. But… I didn’t quite spend Valentine’s Day how I expected it to. Â Instead, I ended …
Muse: Evolution I finished work on Muse, and have started work on the second book, Muse: Evolution. Â I’m about 60 pages into Muse: Evolution so far – that’s including the disturbances like having to move again. I looked back in my files, and had to smile a bit. Â In the last nine months I’ve written …
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A “Quick Update” Meredith asked me today how things where going… and I kind of shrugged and gave a non-committal answer of “good and bad” basically. So, I thought I’d sit down and update this, since it’s been neglected for a little bit 🙂 Moving Right Along… First thing to update the world (well, my …
Brain Dumpage There’s actually quite a bit I haven’t talked about on here, though not for any particular reason. Â “Muse” is about relationships (in some ways, labeling it a Romance might be wrong, but I can’t find a damned classification that actually completely fits) so it’s been my outlet of a lot of the stuff …
Business As Usual Well, I haven’t updated this in a bit. Â There’s a good reason too – most of my writing energy goes towards “Muse” these days. Â And that’s a lot of energy. Business isn’t good – which means it’s business as usual for these days. Â I’m always scraping for gigs, and never coming up …
I walked away wordlessly, giving no reason for the sudden silence from me.  She never asked – it’s just the way it was. I couldn’t tell her why I went away, the words would have hurt her to the core.  Sometimes truth hurts more than we would like – that’s just the way it is. I walk …
“Muse”ings My ability to write suddenly increased considerably. Â There’s been a couple of nights that I wrote as much as 10 pages in an hour. Â Yeah, my typing speed (and accuracy) jumped up too somewhere along the way (which is funny – I still have a fucked up finger, and it doesn’t slow me down …
She’s baaaaack… I’m not sure what the random whim was that caused me to do it, but I txted Tammy, and said “Hey – let’s go have lunch. Â How’s chinese sound?” “Great!” So we met up for lunch. Â There are reasons why I don’t spend much time with Tammy anymore, and definitely don’t pursue the …
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First Draft is Done!!! Well, the first draft of The Horror Game is now done. Â I actually like it – there’s a surprise! Â It weighs in at 104 pages, and after adding the artwork I’m licensing in, it will be about 114 pages. Â It’s going to be printed in a smaller form factor than most …
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More Lost Books? While Unpacking stuff, I ran across my Libretto 100CT – the very very small laptop I used to use for D&D nights. Â It’s got my characters on there, etc. Â It also happened to have a bit of a lost treasure on it. One working copy of DoubleOtt, the old d100 based game …
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The Drama Is Over I’ve sat down three times to write about this, and I can’t quite collect my thoughts in a way that makes any sense on screen. Â Bizarre for a guy who’s writing a book that jumps deep into the mind at the moment (Muse) But I can sum it up – things …
Returning From Hell Well, I’m about to make my trek back home from Kenosha, WI – I couldn’t be happier. I’ve spent two weeks in hell for a two day job. Â And the last day? Â THEN they find extra last minute things for me to do. Â Oh joy oh joy. On the last day, the …
More Trip Problems So last night I talk to Marc and Madi for about 15 minutes, and head off to work on some web dev at the hotel. Â I finally get tired of that, get up, and work on my “little” postcard mural project. Â Which isn’t so damned little. Â It’s still not done, and I’ve …
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The Trip (So Far) Those who catch my updates on Facebook know I had a few… issues getting to Kenosha. Â To sum up: In the middle of nowhere, my water pump goes out. Â Manage to get replacement water pump in small town near Davis City. Â It’s a Caddy with a Northstar engine, so major repairs …
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Wow. Â This has been a whole lotta bloggin’ going on lately. Â But I thought I’d get some of these thoughts down before I go to bed. This ended up being a day of serious highs and lows. Â And another reminder that yes, people read this crap. Â Like, real people, not random electrons floating out there. …
Completely. Fucking. Lost. Part II I actually forgot to mention one other little odd event in all of that… before she actually kissed me, she had tried once before to kiss me, and I shot her down in a subtle way. All off the Three D’s were in the room at the same time, and …
Completely. Fucking. Lost. No matter what I get used to in my very odd life, something or someone comes along and changes things on me and suddenly I’m forced to rethink it all. For some reason, after I dropped that last large blog entry that ended with my comments about the various bits of confusion …
Slow Radical Change (This was experementally written on my iPhone as a note while I waiting on two system scans to complete, so you’ll have forgive me if my spelling is worse than normal, or if my writing is even more dijointed than normal 😉 The other day Tisha made a comment about Devvi’s comment …
I Wanna Be a Producer So I get a call on Friday from Adam – he’s got two season tickets to Wichita Music Theater that he gets from his parents for Christmas (why the hell do I get clothes still? Â I’ll admit a little envy here.) Â This of course, would have resulted in my calling …
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Another Reunion So, I finally broke down and handled another one of those “Davis, just fucking suck it up and go there” sort of things. Â I went and visited with Jeff and Wanda. I had been avoiding this for quite a while now. Â I left for a reason. Â Nick mentions that I should go over …
Prologue – In a time outside of time… He looked down upon His Children, in love and awe at what They had become. While all knowing, all seeing, and all feeling, even He had to pause from time to time at the sight of Their evolution from mindless creatures to what They shall become in …
This weekend may count as one of the strangest in a while. Â Of course, it was time for my 20 Year High School Reunion. Â But it ended up being three reunions of sorts in a single weekend – one of them for Devi, not me. The entire weekend was made a bit more chaotic by …
“Thanks for calling BodyZone, this is Mike, how may I help you?”  He droned it out in the happiest possible tone, just in case this call was being “monitored for quality assurance,” but he got tired of saying it within the first three months of the job.  Now four years later, he had a hard time getting …
I’d like to teach the world to sing, In perfect harmony, I’d like to buy the world a Coke, Then throw a little arsenic in there, so my damned phone would quit ringing. ———— Writing Notes ————— Written a couple of years back when I was in a bad mood – the phone …
Ribs Aren’t Suppose To Do That, Right? So, I grab my chinup bar and start to do a pullup, and feel this “pwaaang!” in my chest on the right side, just past the sternum. Â As per my rules, I quit doing that as part of my workout right then, but it quit hurting. Â So I …
Muse The Muse has been a term I’ve used for awhile to describe a sort of personification of the motivation I feel when writing. Â Not an uncommon thing, of course. Â A while back Devi and I were chatting about something, and another personification just sort of popped in my head – The Writer, who’s the …
Back on the Road “Drivin’, drivin’, drivin’, Got my troubles on hold Just drivin’ down that highway My fossil fuel’s good as gold I’m lookin for that long lost road No sign of man, no sign of life “ — Sammy Hagar, Privacy Well, it’s time for my next trip to Kenosha, WI.  As usual, I’m …
Just before it all goes wrong… I’m not an expert mechanic, but I can do quite a bit, and have before. Â There’s some things I’ve done so many times I could almost do it blind folded on certain cars. Â Take out a manual transmission on a real-wheel sports car, replace the pressure plate and clutch, …
A Dead Run Life has been moving at a dead run lately, which is why I’ve been ignoring blogging for a little bit. Â I think things are going to slow down, though I’ve been adding things to my “personal” stack lately rather than by “business” stack, so I end up moving at about the same …
Standing near the edge, you’re always cautious.  You can’t quite see how far down it really is – a good indication that extreme caution should be used.  You hold on to the handrails, you tread carefully.  You always watch where you step. But you can’t help it – you have to look, you have to try and see …
