Tag: Thoughts

  • Musings

    Musings

    I find that ignorance is a result of assuming I know anything.  And cowardice is a result of using that as an excuse not to act.

  • Musings

    Musings

    In order to access a creative free-flow, I actively contemplate how untethered I am—I’m basically a meat suit on a floating planet.  There may in fact be no true up or down.   Removing these limits from my mind pushes me toward unlimited freedom within my stories.

  • Musings

    Musings

    While many talk about building character through adversity, I like to throw in an added twist:  How do I behave when there is no cause to fight for, no one to save or let down, no one looking over my shoulder?  It’s in those times, when I’m free to collapse into lazy indulgence, that I am given…

  • Echo:  A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    Absolute….MADNESS!  Grammar nazis have conquered the world.  They’re chasing me in Mad-max style dune buggies, pleasuring themselves to sculptures of their all-powerful god:  The Red Pen.  Their leader—a chinless, bespectacled shadow of a man—throws a giant red pen at me, javelin-style, entangling my legs and sending me head over heels.  I’m spitting up a mouthful…

  • Musings

    Musings

    Our tendency to indulge is like a boil that grows ever more gross, ever more uncomfortable, but feels amazing when lanced.

  • Echo:  A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    A rain of meteoric death is falling from the skies.  The new-agers have ironically invoked the coming of Kai Nak-Klai’iktan, the demon cryptlord that has long disguised himself as all things annoyingly hippie (you could tell those new-agers were subject to dark forces, couldn’t you?  No one can be that annoying and not worship the…

  • Echo:  The Weekly Update

    Echo: The Weekly Update

    No more word count until the next book; volume 3 is done and being edited. 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, and Keith for posting AMAZING reviews on Amazon!!!…

  • 4 Star Review for Echo on Goodreads!!!! :) :) :)

    4 Star Review for Echo on Goodreads!!!! :) :) :)

    I peek over at goodreads and there’s an AWESOME 4-star left by Mickey Ann!  Thank You So Much, Mickey Ann!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Here it is:  “Who doesn’t love an author who uses an almost literal peeing contest to introduce us to this brutal, military-themed, futuristic society called Echo. Yet, it’s the lone female character…

  • Musings

    Musings

    If I ever get down on myself, it must be done in a way that forces me to change for the better.   Otherwise, I’ve just wasted my time wallowing in negativity.

  • Musings

    Musings

    If you strategically condition yourself, other people’s max output will become nothing more than your warmup.  Conditioning and training are ways of life.