Tag: personal life
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GOO! (RE: He-Man)
I often site the original He-Man mini-comics that came with the toys as one of the largest influences of my writing career. It’s very true. I was five when I was allowed to buy my first He-Man figure and those comics stirred a creativity in me that I had never known before. …AND NOW THEY’RE…
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I’m a Back!
Hey ho! I had some roll-over vacation that had to be used by the end of the month and PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) East happened in Boston this past weekend. Serendipty! I gathered some friends and experienced my first video game convention. This was not my first convention. I love role playing and was actively…
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The Five As
So after a very direct post telling you to publish for the money, I turn around and say I’m not in publishing for the money. …okay, I’m not only in publishing for the money, and I doubt you are either. I’ve been a long-time fan of George Carlin and even got to see him for…
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Vick–Vickie Vale! Vickie Vale!
When I was younger, I loved comic books. Loved them. My friend Jeremy introduced them to me at the beginning of high school and there began a brief obsession with the funnybooks. I won’t say that I grew out of them, because that’s condescending and inaccurate. There are still books I enjoy even though I…
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Another Selby Invitational
Saturday was another Selby Invitational. Winter is a hard time to gather friends and this was no different. We had a number of last-minute cancellations due to illness. Regardless, there were nine of us in all, allowing for some larger fun party games and some smaller games. Telestrations made another appearance. If you’re looking for…
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Cheating at Dreaming
Monday night I dreamed that I was selected for the first New Hampshire HUNGER GAMES. This was not an event to celebrate Suzanne Collins’ popular YA trilogy. This was a handful of people being send into the wilderness of New Hampshire to fight to the death until only one remained. There were some differences between…
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Arcadia
When I was a young lad, only twelve, and had decided in earnest that I was going to be a novelist, I began tap tap tapping away on my Apple IIGS (Appleworks, baby!). There were a number of ideas bumping around in my head. I wrote stuff for Jim Henson’s Storyteller (which in no way…
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Knowledge = (the battle)/2
I was watching a movie the other day and character A says of character B that he is a marksman. He can strike a man square in the chest at 50 meters. This was a modern piece with modern weaponry. There are different levels of writing what you know. The soul of some things can…
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Germ Warfare
So here’s my suggestion: Write a guest post on a popular blog and then get sick when it runs, causing you to miss the brief exposure it provides you. Yay my immune system! I hate being sick. Mostly, I hate it because I’m sick. I doubt anyone sits at their computer writing a blog post…
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A Good and Happy Life
Occasionally I’ll rant in my head1. Something touched me off yesterday. I think it was a webcomic or a response to a webcomic. I don’t know. The jist of it was that an author uses his medium as a pulpit for his own opinions. At face value, this can be true. The context of the…