One thing that the current climate of online meet-ups has given me is the chance to engage in online learning. That, combined with the time and financial means to do so. I’ve taken a slew of online writing classes through 2020/2021 via Rambo Academy. I’ve learned a lot in the classes, and have met some interesting people! Below is a
September 3, 2019 You don’t go to a concert for a perfect audio experience. If you want to hear the music the way the artist wants it to be, you get a studio album. There, they had more complete control over how it sounds. (To a degree, of course. But they know how it sounded when it left.) You go
Originally released in The Faces of the Crying Girl anthology, from Hair Brained Press. “A collection of short stories all based on another short story … makes total sense, eh? The Crying Girl tells the story of a girl, crying at a metal concert right before heads start exploding: literally. No really, I mean literally blowing up. Not, like, metaphorically.
Originally released in Manifest Reality, an anthology from Hair Brained Press. (Now out of print) Manifest Reality Edited by Jessica West Everyone is looking at you funny, right? RIGHT?! They are, they’re looking at you out of the corner of their eyes, plotting against you. The whole world, they’re out for you. Aren’t they? He wanted this. You know he
There’s nothing quite like the relief one feels upon learning they are not irreparably broken. To have someone reach out and lift that guilt from your shoulders, to say, “this isn’t a burden you need to be bearing”. There’s also a great comfort in being shown that you can do it, you’ve just been doing it the wrong way for
Alan Wake is a game that has always spoken to me, and is one of the few games to give me nightmares. It stars a writer plagued by writer’s block, and starts out with a nightmare in which one of his characters is a shadowy monster attacking him, both physically and verbally with such taunts as “the only reason your
Some time ago, a call came out for submissions to Evil Hat for a proposed book for Don’t Rest Your Head, called Don’t Hack This Game. The project, sadly, didn’t see completion. Those of us involved were paid by Evil Hat though, cause they’re good people. Fred Hicks opened up a post on his Google Plus to talk about the
Everyone Hates Writing A Synopsis And rightfully so. They are the least fun part of writing. I’d rather stand over my printer, begging it to do the one job I bought it for, than write a synopsis. But they’re required, so I’ve done it. I have a little method, too. Nowadays, when I write a synopsis, it’s for my agent
Today we have a guest post by Tee Morris, co-writer of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences novels. The latest book, Dawn’s Early Light, is out March 25th, and I have been eagerly awaiting it! Check after the post for a giveaway from the Ministry team! When I was asked what type of guest post I wanted for my part of
Hello one and all! I’m Shen Hart and Chris was kind enough allow me a slot on her blog. Today I’m going to touch on what I am and what I do before diving into my passion for writing. I’m an indie marketing consultant. I jokingly say that I’m saving the world, one indie at a time. This means that