Out of the blueWhen the world turns upside down in an instant, where do you go from there?
The armed troops and the ID cards are gone now, but low-flying planes are still unnerving.
A Year After “the Event”
Resilience after 9-11—it’s about what happens in the mind as much as on the ground.
Could You Become a Monster to Kill One?
The layers are thick and deep in this story. Expect things to change. Often. Unexpectedly. Yet precisely the way they must. Once you know enough.
Killing Your Little Darlings
“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.” —William Faulkner Yes, this post will be about wholesale slaughter. Of words, characters, and ideas. Of little darlings—all those great lines, tightly written paragraphs, wonderfully surprising sub-plots, or dashing characters that please the writer, but will bore, or worse, confuse the reader. I’ve never enjoyed […]
Revelations and Unexpected Shifts
knowing her as well as we do, having watched her survive her brutal childhood, pull off one audacious mission after another, we know this won’t last. Then, things get worse.
Mission Impossible, Night Guild Style
Yes, this is Iliana of House Hawk, the highest earning, boldest, most respected Journeyman in the Night Guild.
When Temporal Lobe Seizures meet a Twenty-year Old Novel Idea inspired by a Song
I felt as if my consciousness had suddenly reappeared back in my own body. In the exact moment from which it had been plucked days, or perhaps years before. In between? I had no idea.
A Grim Dark Swords and Sorcery Fantasy Thief Adventure
Andy Peloquin has introduced me to yet another genre I didn’t know existed and took me a great ride doing so.
I’ve Plenty of Bad Habits
Things that keep me from doing all the things I want to do. Many of them, I want to bring to you. But instead, they get sacrificed to the time hungry beasts of these bad mental habits.
Disappointments, mistakes, and blunders
When I say food and wine matches Matter, with a capital M, this is what I mean: mismatches—the dark side of wine