I just finished the 3rd draft of my first completed novel and there’s a 99.9999% chance that it will never be traditionally published. I just broke too many rules to give me the edge I’d need for a first novel. That’s not to say it doesn’t have a chance. I just know happiness is directly […]Continue Reading

Ok, I’m a newbie. I just finished my first draft of my time travel novel about two weeks ago. It’s clocking in at around 98,000 words. I’m guessing I’ll probably end up at around 110,000 words by the time I’m finished with the second draft. With the exception of a couple of plot holes I […]Continue Reading

When I was a kid I liked to draw. I thought it meant I was creative. My grandparents told me I was. I believed them. So I kept at it. And by the time I was 23 I was already in a position of some creative responsibility at a 100 million dollar ad agency (think […]Continue Reading

Everyone gets into a writing lull here and there. Sometimes the best thing you can do is step away and absorb some creativity from other sources. The links below are to visual, audio, and film resources that I use to stimulate my mind and put myself into a zone for writing. I read every day. […]Continue Reading

It’s apparently been a year since I made a post to this website. That’s kind of hard to believe. Not that it’s been an unproductive year. I read more this past year. I wrote more. I lived a little more. I spent time in VR. I spent more time in reality. Most of my writing […]Continue Reading

Parker Murphy sat at the terminal in his bedroom, staring at the screen, tapping his desk. The earth shook slightly, as the only light in the windowless room came from his two monitors. On one screen an application was plotting the movements of each android warrior, tank, and air-droid currently waging war on the surface, […]Continue Reading

<- Part 3 | Start at the Begining -> Papa’s workshop was a ramshackle one-story two-room shack. At daybreak, Jacob led Farley to check it out. As they approached, junk increasingly littered the road. Spools of wire, scrap metal, various electrical equipment, and miscellaneous do-dads cluttered the ground on both sides of the path. “Your […]Continue Reading

<- Part Two | Start at Begining | Part Four -> After a moment the man returned. “Not too shabby for an outhouse. Although, if you’re all alone the privacy seems like overkill.” “Papa said animals go in the woods. And he liked having a dry place to go when it rains. You still haven’t told […]Continue Reading

<- Part One | Part Three -> Jacob stood silent, marveling at the sight of another human; his first, other than his brother and father. But this man was young. Much younger than Papa. But only slightly older than Roger. “Listen kid! I know this is crazy, but a rope could really help me out! […]Continue Reading

This is a story I’ve been working on in a previous post. I took a break the last few days from updating it here and finished it offline. I’m not in edit mode and I’m going to post one part here every day as I work my way through the first real edit. This is […]Continue Reading