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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Writing Resources A very good friend gave me a wonderful book recently: Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction by Orson Scott Card, Philip Athans, Jay Lake and the Editors of Writer’s Digest. Not the kind of book to read straight through for pleasure necessarily, but I’m finding it to be a great resource for my writing.…
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Ohio Mock Trial 2015-PHS Quarterfinalists I am very proud to have worked with these incredible young women. 325 teams started the Ohio Mock Trial Competition this year, and Portsmouth High School Team Blue went on to become one of the Top 8 in the State. I couldn’t have asked for more from them and it…
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