Kent Wayne

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  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    Ever been to a yoga class and been completely pwned?  Yep, that was me—typical guy grunting and flailing all over the place as he tries to stand on one foot with hands all twisted up over his head or whatnot.  But as the months passed I worked on my harmonious tree or whatever it’s called,…

  • Musings

    IMHO, the key to reliably producing quality results means combining “speed of perception” with consistent audacity.  The faster you perceive what fits in your story, and the more audacious you are in instantiating it, the higher the pay-off for your audience, and the faster you can cycle on to a better project, which in turn…

  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    Time for some home-made Noms—cheesy eggs with onions, there is no finer comestible!  I look in my fridge and see that the single remaining carton of eggs is long past its expiration date—seems like I should’ve eaten them a year and a half ago.  I shrug.  Oh well—eating like a filthy, down-on-his-luck man-whore is par…

  • Musings

    To me, being an author is 20% reading (research), 80% daily word count, and 0% waiting for inspiration.

  • Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    The year is 3598.  I’m on the temperate planet of Gliese 832 c, putzing through their award-winning Earth museum.  I wave hello to a few Grays who I’ve seen playing hyperball next to my zero-grav neighborhood.  The tour guide says to my group:  “And here we have a one Taylor Swift:  a singer who sold…

  • Palamedes is looking for manuscripts!

    Dear Fantabulous Friends:  If you’re an author and would like to submit a manuscript for possible publication, Palamedes Publishing is open to receiving them!  Now I’ve recently received a few complaints from people saying they got an error message when they sent their manuscript, so I just want to be clear:  Shoot your word document…

  • Musings

    There is no inherent salvation in structure.  Adhering to structure can often lead to effective action, which can induce a positive course of events, but structure alone is not enough.  One must be EFFECTIVE.  And to do that, one must constantly question whether the structure is serving them…or if they’re serving the structure.  

  • Palamades Publishing: Get your fix of poetry, ghosts, and soon…giant robots. That’s right: Giant robots motha duckas!

    Good lord.  I’m at the gym waiting to use the squat rack.  Two Crossfit bros—that’s right, just TWO—have taken up the rack, the cables, all the benches, and the gym’s entire selection of kettlebells so they can engage in some kind of weird, injury-inducing circuit that causes them to grunt, scream, and fling their disgusting…

  • Get yer copy of Echo!

    Dear fellow ape-beasts, all ye who once swung from trees and are currently evolving into some unimaginably strange form of half-machine, half-flesh technomancer:  This is an afternoon reminder to grab yerselves a copy of Echo!  For a small scoop of that change mound you keep in your car’s center console, you too can plunge into…

  • Musings

    For me, the premise behind living a disciplined life is so that when order breaks down, or reality turns into an ambiguous soup of opportunity/peril, you have the basics covered well enough so that you can focus on making big, audacious leaps.  Discipline is not an end in and of itself—if that stance is taken,…