Kent Wayne

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  • Thank You Recent Echo Reader!!!

    Decided to sleep in some this morning.  I wake up, and see that a Kindle Unlimited subscriber has started to read Echo Volume 1!   Thank You Kind Sir or Ma’am!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂  Now it’s time for me to start drafting and get those 700 words in!  WHOO! Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here:  Vol.…

  • Musings

    What does it mean to “do your best?”  Most of the time I’ve seen it interpreted as an unthinking brute effort, but what I’ve come to suspect it REALLY means is to mercilessly challenge yourself…to always seek out new and uncomfortable methods of accomplishment, even at the cost of reducing short-term performance.  It is easy…

  • Musings

    In [writing], learn technique/etiquette/structure/format/etc…but while you’re learning, never forget that the goal of the [writer] is to crack the audience across the heart.   Don’t be a rote zombie that’s imprisoned by doctrine.  Instead, be boosted by it.

  • Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    I’m shopping at Whole Foods when some crystal-encrusted New Ager with a weird-ass ring on every finger gives me the tsk tsk.  I lift an eyebrow in a wordless question.  “Your aura,” she explains to me, “is totally unstructured and spotted with black.  You need a cleansing.”  I look to my left and to my…

  • Musings

    Don’t parrot the “wise” ones; always staying one quote behind, forever immersed in the comfort of adoration….make up your OWN quotes and jam with all that are “wise” and “holy.”   Rather than look wistfully up at the pedestal, JUMP up there and have the time of your life!

  • Musings

    We weave traps out of the world so we can feel the rush of escape.   But we were always free to begin with.  😉

  • Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    Nerd Elitists:  Who would’ve thought there’d ever be such a thing?  But they’re there:  Computer types who scoff at you for not drinking the programming kool-aid, unable to have sex without babbling about “end-user satisfaction” and “the metrics of thrust-to-sweat ratio.”  (also unable to laugh without snorting).  A bunch of ’em are chuckling derisively at me for…

  • Musings

    Accepting that you’re nothing but a hollow channel does wonders for your creative flow.

  • Musings

    I’ve been unnecessarily crazy for an insane amount of time.

  • Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    Uh-oh, I’ve run afoul of the Venerators of Mac:  Slavering Mac fanatics who’ll persecute you for not having the latest up to date iPhone or if you say one word that is not utterly devotional to All That is Mac.  I happen to still have an iPhone 5:  Yup, that makes me scum in their…