I found an old notepad item on my iphone today, a bucket list I’d started a long time ago. I updated it with a few new items. My personal favorite was the bottom one. -Publish a Novel -Live in a
The Never Battle | Writing Fight Scenes = Difficult, Writing Superhero Fight Scenes = Super Difficult
I’m having a difficult time getting to the end of my novel. Two scenes left to write (1) the final fight scene (2) the aftermath that leads into the rest of the series. Oddly the second part will be a
The Never Parent | Striking Your Children – An Instructional Manual
Okay, provocative title, if you’re actually looking for instructions on how to beat children you’ve come to the wrong place. This entry is about beating step-children. Yeah… no, but in all seriousness, the other day I was taking a late
Man Of Steel Review – Spoiler Alert – DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE FILM YET
Spoiler Alert – Man Of Steel Review – DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE FILM YET. This was a review I wrote for my co-workers, the monday after opening night. I never really intended it for a
The Never Puppy | Shit-Pocalypse | A Documentary
See if you can figure out how the story ends before I get there…. Those who aren’t aware, my son’s Doberman Pincher (a Big Dog) and my wife’s Border Collie (a slightly smaller Big Dog) had seven puppies a while
The Merits of Being a Slow Reader
So confession. I’ve always been an incredibly slow reader. There have been many times when it’s been embarrassing, like reading a webpage at work with someone else and repeatedly asking them to stop scrolling because they are three paragraphs a
Writing | Measuring Progress and Some Advice
When I first started writing I found it hard to gauge how much actual progress I was making and whether or not that progress would be comparable to other authors. I was unsure of myself, and to help anyone else
The Never Cliche | Overly Sentimental Scenes – Does it matter if it is a cliche if you love reading it?
I find the words “Write the book you would want to read” help me finish a lot of scenes I normally would be ashamed to put my name on. I say this because I have been worried of late about