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You could call this my "professional" blog - where I write about being a journalist, struggling to become a novelist, and at times the issues of being a gay author writing (sometimes) gay-themed fiction. I can't promise I'll always sta
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Not a zombie!
Guess who isn’t dead? Oi, where in hell have I been? Well, to put it shortly… 1. Tooth pain. Bad tooth pain. One of my molars is now nothing but an L-shaped shell that has blessedly been numbed entirely until I can get it pulled out. 2...
Swing about.
Looks like Shadow’s Breath is getting a rewrite and a complete concept change. Last night I got some amazing feedback that really nailed down and concretely defined the problem areas in the story. While thinking over how to fix those issues, ...
Finding North.
Compasses exist for one purpose: finding magnetic north, so we know where we are and where we’re going in relation to the rest of the world. The compass metaphor has always had easy parallels in life, love, a dozen other aspects of our existen...
Snozzberries taste like wha?
Life lesson: If you’re too tired to do something right, all the sworn avowals in the world don’t matter a damn when you just have to redo it the next day after gaping in horror at the rotten fruits of your own labor. Yesterday I had a whi...
Green as can be.
Hikaru and I are looking into adopting an adult cat from the local no-kill shelter; the more cats they find homes for, the more room they have to take animals from the kill shelters so they won’t be euthanized. There are three that are just lu...
