If you have been reading this blog long you know I don’t like software or programers. I do use the stuff so I went to the panel on using the Audrino computer. It’s a cute little computer but quite powerful. I won’t bore you with the details but I fascinated my lab partner my typing in the […]
Here are some notes on the panel. The guest of honor sat on the panel. A bit of self promotion, the book The Desert and the Blade sounds like fun. A line from the movie Mammoth, ‘Heroes are not made they are cornered’. On being a hero. If a anti hero is forced to be a […]
Another hour, another panel. The panel was split on the Twilight books and movies. Some liked the books some liked the movies, and some didn’t any of them. I’ll let you guess who writes vampire books. One panel member talked about how his wife was reading a book to their child. It was about a […]
At the ConDor convention I also attended the Sex and Sex panel and the Visual Story Telling Panel The Sex and Sex panel was kind of Meh. Did have a couple of take aways. It’s the character that determines if it’s exploitive. Does it exploit the character or is the story true to the character. One […]
Attended the ConDor science fiction convention in San Diego on the weekend of March 13 through 15, 2015. I was looking for answers to getting a book published and whether I should publish it traditionally or self publish or even ebook publish. Ended up with more questions than answers. One panel I attended was on publishing and here […]
Here’s a quick way to beat writers block or to find new ideas for a story, novel or whatever. Get a book of trivia and read it. Make sure the book covers the time period and location your writing about. This is my secret and it works, try it. Even better book is one from […]
I needed to have my character write a report. First I had to find out what people used to write with in the time period. Once I know that, then I can take it to extremes. Did they use fountain pens in the late 1800s? Yes, they did but people still used ink pens with […]
I’ve been for solar energy since before the energy crisis of the 1970s. A power company in the state of Arizona is going to start charging $50.00 a month to people who have installed solar cells (solar energy) at their homes. They didn’t say if they would also charge people that had solar water heating […]
The novel I’m working on is now up to 15,000 words. Not bad but I’m mostly through the outline and running out of things to write about. This could end up being a short book. The Novel is a quick read anyway. No artwork inside this novel just on the cover. She shot the bad […]
Sleep. I didn’t say a good nights sleep, just sleep. 12:29 and I had just finished lunch. Sitting at the restaurant table with a friend and my cell phone goes off. The call, a family member has been rushed to hospital again and is in emergency room. The long drive down the freeway to the hospital […]