Once upon a time, I was a boy with nothing to do but explore the worlds I found in my imagination, and decorate them with little bits of mundane reality. I lived for free time and fairy tales. That doesn’t really narrow the context at all, does it? Very well. Let’s say once upon a [...]
Thursday, August 25, 2011
I know I said Tuesday that I’d probably be dropping down to one post a week now that school has started, but that wasn’t a promise. Just my expectation. Besides, today’s isn’t really a post. It’s a quick question (although it could have ramifications for Posts of Thursdays Future). See, my reasoning for cutting back [...]
As you’re well aware, I’m halfway through my pursuit of a Master of Professional Writing degree at the University of Oklahoma. My classes start tomorrow. But I was on campus yesterday running hither and yon, signing up for tutorial time with the chair of my graduate committee, applying for a two-hundred-dollar parking pass, and picking [...]
Filed in For Fun
|
Also tagged Blogging, Creative Writing, Federal Express, Johnny Cass and the Castle in Catoosa, Master of Professional Writing, NaNoWriMo, Prewriting, Short Stories, Storytelling, Taming Fire, The Consortium, The Dragonprince, The Dragonswarm
|
This year I’ve missed a lot of blog posts. I missed some because I was so busy with school work. I missed some because I was so miserably sick. And I missed some because I was so frantic finishing up novels or promoting them to an oblivious public. I’ve had lots of good reasons to [...]
Filed in For Fun
|
Also tagged Amazon, Colors of Deception, Courtney Cantrell, Ghost Targets: Expectation, Gods Tomorrow, Kindle Publishing, Platform and Promotion, Public Domain, Publication, Storytelling, Taming Fire
|
In the fall of 2009, I started a grand experiment. The English department at my alma mater lost their Tech Writing professor at the last minute, and the chair of the department asked me to step in and teach the class for a semester. I agreed, and then scrambled to put together a lesson plan [...]