Tag: ideas
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Transcending Genre
I’m not a huge Neil Gaiman fan. I do not dislike him, but in the scale of fandom that belongs to him, most everyone I know falls into the “I would give him a kidney if he asked for it” category, and I’m not there. Not all his stories resonate with me. And while my…
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Bringing KITT Back
First let me apologize for my absence. I’ve been fiddling with more personal, non-writing specific posts. That was fine and all, but there was one topic I’ve been trying to tackle for awhile that is difficult because it involves another company owned by the company that owns mine. In other words, there’s a lot I’m…
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Music to My Eyes
So one of the exhibits at Old Sturbridge Village is a building full of firearms and textiles. It is interesting to see the evolution of muskets and eventually rifles over the course of two centuries, but what I really found interesting was a few items in the textiles section of the building. There used to…
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Good Ken is Good
My friend Good Ken1 Braun is in town. We are leaving for Canada today for he has never been out of the United States and I will pop his international cherry. We go to Montreal for a couple days and then Quebec City. This is the first vacation I’ve had in years. While money is…
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Secret Passages
There are few things I like better in adventure storytelling than secret passages. In fact, the two middle grade novels I have in mind (one written, one started a few times but never finished) both are heavily reliant on secret passages. I think that’s a dream of a lot of kids, to live in a…
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A New Adventure!
Groupon Queen discovered that we lived near the nation’s third largest living history museum, Old Sturbridge Village. This is a village as you would have found it in 1835 New England, and many of the buildings are actually from that period transplanted from one of the various states. Actors/educators are in period dress and conduct…
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Food in the Future!
I’m from the Midwest. A historian might argue I’m from the South. Either way, I’m from the land of cows and pigs and chicken. Fish came in two varieties, cat or sticks. I cannot stand catfish. It is the most bland, boring, flimsy fish known to man and it looks pretty disgusting beforehand (my fish…
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Collaboration!
I will admit that I’m not a fan of collaboration. But I realized today that it’s not a matter of not being a fan of collaboration, it’s just that collaboration has never been presented to me in a fashion that I particularly cared for. But then I got linked to a video of Joseph Gordon-Levitt…
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Prince of Cats
Hello! Yes, I’m still alive, just super busy. Lots of work combined with home stress has been sucking up my hours. I’m still writing, because writing comes before blogging, but even that is slow going. I’m at the 1/3 mark and really I should be at the finished and ready to query mark. I need…
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Witness Protection is Always Funny
Necessary backstory: Every Monday in Nashua is a board-game Meet Up. This is how I met most of my friends when I moved to New England. I showed up thinking it would be three nerds playing Ticket to Ride and it turned out to be twenty awesome people (many of them nerds–like me) playing Ticket…