the blog.
May 15, 2018
We’ll start this with a pretty picture and idyllic feeling. All you have to do is play the video below to be filled with a sense of pastoral, green tech and communal wonder. The fact that it’s a commercial for a factory farmed, mass market yogurt company (Chobani) is probably smashing the irony button just […]
May 8, 2018
What I refer to Arcanopunk/Arcanepunk is some seriously fun, messy territory to play around in. Arcanopunk is a far less clearly defined genre than either Steampunk or Dieselpunk, but to me it shares the same ‘technological’ justification. Magic or some other mystical energy ‘powers’ the world. This can be blended with spell-slinging, but at the end of […]
May 3, 2018
As I’ve been trying to get my blog working – that is to say properly connected to social media, it’s been… trying. Since I needed to once again test to see if it’s connecting to anything other than some Hellscape-social-media-apocalypse-dimension, I thought I’d make it a bit more fun. Here we are. Drag and drop […]
May 1, 2018
In my first Genre Hell post, I gave a quick definition of what I think Steampunk is, but after doing a much more in-depth post on Dieselpunk, I figured I should probably go back to my “home” genre and dig in a bit. Steam Power is the foundation of Steampunk as a genre to me. As […]
Apr 25, 2018
After last week’s post I realized that some people may only be passingly familiar with what I’m talking about when I refer to Steampunk/Dieselpunk/Arcanopunk/Solarpunk, and the dizzying array of other genres out there. I thought I’d talk about what defines some of these genres to me. My definition of several genres is based on an overarching […]
Apr 17, 2018
After fighting the good fight for a while trying to determine what genres I write in, it’s now clear to me that there are no ‘rules’ beyond staggeringly incoherent broad strokes. The genres I write in are Sci Fi and Fantasy. Easy enough to break those out. But then you go down the rabbit hole. […]
Apr 10, 2018
Take a long, deep breath… and… Yay, it’s done! Uhhh, waitasecond, well maybe it’s more like, sorta done. I’m sure I’m not the only writer who looks at their hard won pages and all they see are flailing, disconnected plot threads, paper thin characters and dialogue that sounds like a gang of two-year-olds talking about […]
Apr 5, 2018
It feels appropriate that the first post on my new blog should be something about my writing process.
When I was writing my first book, “Tomahawk Incident,” I was learning the craft. -Insert Deadpool voice here – “Spoiler alert!” I still am, probably always will be. Given the myriad ways writing continues to adapt, constant learning isn’t just something nice to think about, it’s survival.