Something Rotten! I discovered Something Rotten! during the most recent Tony Awards broadcast. I was a History major in college, and I focused on Medieval and Renaissance history. I immediately fell in love with this musical and purchased the Cast Album. I’ve been listening to quite a bit over the last few weeks. Oh, how…
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A Farewell to Kings Rush-Clockwork Angels Tour-Columbus, Ohio 2012 June 8, 2015 Rush played Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio opening the second leg of their R40 Tour marking their 40th Anniversary as a band. I was privileged to take my wife and two children and share a special evening with Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart, and…
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Revisions and Writing Resources Volume I: The Dream of the Sphere is finished and there’s a light at the end of the tunnel on revisions at long last. After a very long haul, working through my lessons from Dave Farland’s Rewriting to Greatness, I’m finally on the last few passes, completing line-editing. The first 7…
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Welcome to Nightvale! Earlier this week I had the pleasure of visiting the auspicious town Nightvale by way of Cincinnati. The wildly popular podcast is currently touring its live show “The Investigators”. Watching Cecil Baldwin was truly a treat. The man is a consummate acting professional. All the performers in this production were excellent…
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Visions of The Avengers I’m anxious to see Avengers: Age of Ultron, in a good way, and a bad way. The Avengers was my favorite comic book growing up. It’s one of the first books I ever bought with my own money and started collecting. I was thrilled with Joss Whedon’s take on my Avengers…
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Rewriting to Greatness I previously wrote that I was taking an online writing class, Writing Mastery I, with Dave Farland, aka Dave Wolverton. I’m proud to say that this afternoon I turned in my last two assignments for that class and now await Dave’s feedback. I can say completing this class has been invaluable to…
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Beginnings It’s official, I have now submitted a book to a publisher. I searched Writer’s Market 2015 and found a publisher I felt was compatible for my Children’s book: Blacktooth’s Treasure Chest. I may very well never hear back, but that’s not the purpose of this exercise. I’m thrilled to have finally fought past the…
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The Importance of Epic Fantasy I recently read an essay by author Stephen R. Donaldson about Epic Fantasy which was quite thought-provoking: Stephen R. Donaldson: Epic Fantasy: Necessary Literature. A few excerpts from that article, along with some of my own thoughts: “If we take it as given (I do) that the underlying purpose…
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Writers of the Future, Part II Well, I just hit the submit button on my first writing competition. This is a big first step toward establishing a writing career. Have to say it would be nice to win, but the fact that I committed myself to writing the story and submitting it is already a…
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Writers of the Future I’ve had my laptop to the grindstone this week. I previously started a short story/novella to submit to Writers of the Future for their first quarter competition this year. I had the entire story outlined and approximately 2,500 words written. Since the deadline is fast approaching I decided it was time…
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