Over the last few weeks, I've practically given up coffee, thanks to it upsetting my stomach. As I also drank tea, I switched over to it completely in an attempt to get some caffeine into my system. A funny thing happened while I was drinking my now-five cups a day. I found that drinking all this tea helped my creative output. Which was a good ( Read more... )

My car has been on the fritz for the past few weeks; a growing vibration in the engine. I took it to my usual place last Friday, and was told that it was a cracked head gasket - put me back $1200. I nearly swallowed my tongue, and decided I needed to get a second opinion. I mean, that's a lot of money to shell out on a 10-year-old car. Even if ( Read more... )

What is it that I want to write? Do I want to work on nothing but fiction? Become a world-builder in fantasy, creating creatures and landscapes and characters from ye old-fashioned sword and sorcery type books? Or maybe space opera and far future sci-fi tales? Or thrillers, perhaps; books reminiscent of John Clancy and Steve Berry with handsome ( Read more... )

Okay, so it might be a lame title. But it's fitting. After years of writing fan fiction over several fandoms, I've decided to start working on my own stuff. I have several ideas, a few things started, and my proudest achievement yet: a finished first draft of an essay. And after more than a few false starts over the years, that really has me ( Read more... )