Think back to grade school. It doesn’t matter which grade-at least, in my experience, it didn’t.

Recall the unruly student in the classroom that was constantly provoking the teacher, disrupting the class, and so on. If you were at all like me, you would love nothing more than to throw them out of the classroom. Whether the material was boring or ( Read more... )

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Some snippets, in no particular order.

I’m 30 now. I don’t generally pay much attention to age, getting older, and so on. So it is with the beginning of my fourth decade. 25 was the last age to herald any practical impact (namely, the reduction in costs renting vehicles, which I so often do-oh wait). From here forward, there ( Read more... )

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Mirrored from Ryan McClure.

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…I’m done!


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I’m calling the topside/fore part of the texture done! On to the underside/aft!


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I suspect the rash of 3D modeling posts have left many of you wondering, “Yes, yes, that’s all well and good, but what about the writing?”

Last time I wrote about writing (hm…), I felt much more optimistic about how the science fiction novel - okay, fine, it’s code-named “Prime” - could be redrafted into something more to my liking based on the ( Read more... )

“How’d you do this year?” she asked.

He didn’t jump. Just like all the other times, he knew she was there just before she said anything. Her visits never scared him. Unsettled, but never frightened. She didn’t work that way.

“Okay,” he said, as if such a bland non-answer could hold any meaning. “Not as well as I wanted.”

She chuckled. It was a ( Read more... )

Most of the time when we get songs stuck in our heads, it’s annoying. We don’t want it stuck in our head, we get sick of hearing it loop over and over-especially if we can only remember snippets of it! But sometimes, I’ll get a song stuck in my head that I just want to listen to over and over again. It’s stuck there, but I don’t want it to leave. ( Read more... )

Now that I’ve had a chance to read through and digest all of the feedback on the New Book, I feel much better about it than I did. The deep flaws are still present and the text is going to require a substantial redraft, but I think I have a good handle on how to approach that. It’s going to require a complete overhaul of one character, a refocusing ( Read more... )

This isn’t my content; it’s the original work of Redditor /u/AustinTreeLover and I’m reposting it here because I think the message is important. If you like it and have a Reddit account, go give him some more upvotes.

Here’s the TL;DR: Read it or don’t. Not everything can be summed up in one or two sentences.

I don’t think we should confuse “ ( Read more... )