This week I finished reading Volume XXI of the Writer’s of the Future series of anthologies. Stories that particularly interested me were:
“Betrayer of Trees” by Eric James Stone. A stone worker with a troubled past is called to work on a new palace back near where he grew up. We learn early that he betrayed [...]

Reviewed the edits for “John’s List” which will be appearing in the War of the Worlds anthology set to appear sometime in April and sent them back to the editor a couple days ago.
The full table of contents is:

After Welles by Michael Scott Bricker
Weird Fruits by Camille Alexa
Killers by Vincent L. Scarsella
The Dodo Dragon [...]

With 4700 words, the first draft of my novel is finished. It ended up at 108000 words, a little long as I’ve noted before but I’ll have it below 100k for the final draft. Most of the writing happened after January, so not bad output for three months. I had planned to be finished in [...]

Wrote a bit over 4000 words today. I have only one chapter left to go and my first draft of my first novel is finished.
In slightly less good news the novel is now over a hundred thousand words in length. I’m going to be trying to remove a lot during the second draft as I’d [...]

This blog was originally setup to primarily pass on information to customers of my YourOtherMind software. Over time I’ve transformed it into more of a writing related blog since writing is what I’m primarily doing nowadays, with the occasional gaming post.
That said, I am still working on YourOtherMind and I expect to release an [...]

I’ve been offering some advice to a few people who are interested in working for a gaming company and I figured I’d might as well summarize what I’ve told them.
Are You Sure?
First, I think someone wanting to enter the industry must be sure that this is something they want. Thinking that the job is going [...]

In an attempt to get back into my regular writing routine after the Great Plague struck my family, I am back to ‘office hours’ in regards to e-mail correspondence. That means I’ll generally be answering e-mail only on Mondays and Fridays.
Just in case you’re thinking I’m ignoring you, I’m not.
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So a couple posts ago I talked about going back to being ‘wired’ and loving it and I just discovered a secondary benefit of my ‘great technological push backwards’… my new (cheap) mouse doesn’t have a back button.
I am delighted.
I can’t count the number of times I accidentally pressed the back button on my mouse [...]

Finished reading Writers of the Future XXII. Many good stories in this one, a few that stood out for me:
Broken Stones by Judith Tabron. The main character’s faith is challenged when she disagrees with how the aliens are being treated on a world that her people have colonized for generations. I thought the world well [...]

I always thought wireless stuff was pretty damn cool and years ago I dreamed of the day when everything I owned would be wireless, without a tangled nest of cables breeding beneath my desk.
Ah, so silly now are those dreams of youth.
Wireless stuff (mostly) sucks
I am now slowly making the transition back to [...]