Tag: Thoughts

  • Thank You Recent Echo Purchasers/Readers!!!

    Thank You Recent Echo Purchasers/Readers!!!

    Brakkask’BAM!!!  Whoever those people were who bought Echo yesterday or read it on Kindle Unlimited…Thank You So Much!  GREAT way to wake up and start the day!  WHOOO!!!  🙂 🙂 🙂 Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here:  Vol. 1 on Kindle.  Vol. 2 on Kindle here:  Vol.2 on Kindle  Vol. 3 on Kindle here:  Vol. 3…

  • Musings

    Musings

    As a writer (or any kind of artist), have some crazy ass beliefs.  You need them in order to party with hard-boiled detectives, cyborgs, killers, elves, cowboys…what have you.  That other stuff?  Those mundanities that keep people ensconced in drudge and toil?  For the writer, those mundanities are parts of a game that must be played.…

  • Musings

    Musings

    Be there for your characters; somewhere in the breadth of infinity, they’re real.  They’re not there to make you feel godlike, or to answer to whimsical demands.  They’re there for you to suffer with, to experience glory with, and I think that if they sense you’re with them, then your readers will sense that as…

  • Echo:  The Weekly Update

    Echo: The Weekly Update

    Word Count, Vol.4:  67,367 Thanks to All Who Bought Echo!  And BIG THANKS to Melissa, Barbara, Ian, Lorna, [anonymous], Lisa, Meg, Matt, Bobby, F.T., Alice Smith, Leslie Coop, Richard, Shauna, Sydney, Pam, Jessica, Angela, Kiesa, Ross, Keith, and Alice for posting AMAZING reviews on Amazon!!!  Ashley too for the 5 star on Nook! News:  I…

  • Thank You Recent Echo Purchaser!!!

    Thank You Recent Echo Purchaser!!!

    Sk’boosh k’DOOSH!  Whoever that was that bought a copy of Echo Volume 3 yesterday…Thank You So Much!!!!  You have provided much needed motivation for this guy to attack the day!  Thank You!  🙂 🙂 🙂 Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here:  Vol. 1 on Kindle.  Vol. 2 on Kindle here:  Vol.2 on Kindle  Vol. 3 on…

  • Musings

    Musings

    When the world is against you, you are presented with many opportunities.  Among them are self-pity and training.  Training for what, though?  More  “Toughness?”  Or  “Character?”  Given the opposition, I try to set my sights a little higher. When the world is against me, I see it as training to conquer the world.  😉

  • Thank You Recent Echo Purchaser!!!

    Thank You Recent Echo Purchaser!!!

    Sk’pow b’CHOW!  Whoever that was that bought Echo Volume 1 yesterday…Thank You So Much!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂  Thank You!  WHOOO!!!! Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here:  Vol. 1 on Kindle.  Vol. 2 on Kindle here:  Vol.2 on Kindle  Vol. 3 on Kindle here:  Vol. 3 on Kindle

  • Musings

    Musings

    You and I—like most people—have amazing ideas.  But unlike most people, I hope that you and I will exhibit the drive to follow through on them.

  • Musings

    Musings

    It is by default that I apply myself, for as I grow older, there seems to be no more horrifying fate than to have faded away with a mouthful of empty, dusty promises about how I was going to do better the next day.

  • Musings

    Musings

    How do you come to trust yourself?  By attempting what seems right, again and again, and upon failing, gleaning wisdom from that failure with brutally honest investigation.  There is little room for big talk or empty promises.  Strategy and application are always required.