Last weekend, I appeared at Belton, Missouri’s annual Spring Craft Show at the High Blue Wellness Center. Not exactly the kind of place one would expect to go searching for books, but there was a last-minute opening, so I decided to take the chance.
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A couple weekends ago, I was once again a vendor for two days in the Artist Alley of Texas Furry Fiesta. Like last year, I was once again selected for Friday and Sunday dealing, but the results, as so often in this business, were quite different…
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He is risen!
Happy Easter Sunday, all. May the promise of salvation and eternal life be forever a ray of hope in troubled times. Have a blessed day.
Plans for April
March was another full month of dealing with various appointments and obligations. So full, in fact, that my trip to Dallas for attending TFF 2026 seemed to come up on me rather suddenly! But more about that in another post.
April will be a fairly quiet month by comparison. With but a single-day appearance at the local Spring Craft Show in Belton, MO on the 11th, I should be able to focus more on production and less on preparing for this trip or that obligation. Specifically, I would like to continue some editing and revising of the Knights of Aralia series now that my rewrite of Book V is complete. I need to resume a rewrite of another project that I’ve had on hiatus for a couple of months now as well. And of course, getting to any translation work would be an added bonus.
Ten Ways to Enhance Productivity
We’d all like to be more productive if given the chance. Sometimes we don’t get much time to spend doing the thing we love most, so we’ve got to really make what time we do have count. Here, I’m going to present a few ways to make those spare minutes count even more. These are on no particular order, though I do think the first three are probably the most important.
Continue reading “Ten Ways to Enhance Productivity”Minimizing Distractions
Distractions are everywhere. There are the obvious ones like television, video games, social networks, and going out on the town for this or that. And then there are the ones that seem less obvious–the things that might make us feel like we’re doing something useful, but which are really just keeping us from doing other, more important things. As authors, our biggest question is how to navigate life’s many distractions so that we can get down to business and do the thing we need and desire to do most: write.
Continue reading “Minimizing Distractions”Video Games–Distraction or Inspiration?
There’s no denying that video games have had an impact on many authors in today’s world. How big an impact varies, of course, but it’s safe to say that most writers below the age of fifty have had some level of interaction with games at some point or other. I myself am as guilty as any. But to what extent is this gaming experience helpful to writers, and at what point does it become more harmful to our output?
Continue reading “Video Games–Distraction or Inspiration?”What Established Authors Do Differently Once Traction Hits
Hello again! This week we have a very interesting guest post by Adulting Digest‘s Chris Haymon about what to do once you’ve started taking off as a writer. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did, and I will have a new post of my own out next week. Thanks!
Continue reading “What Established Authors Do Differently Once Traction Hits”Plans for March
February has been extremely productive in a lot of ways, though disappointing in a couple more. As the shortest month, it always feels a little compact, but this month was filled with good things for me. Brsides my positive vending experience at AnthroExpo 2026, I made some good editorial process and even worked on my cartography for Knights of Aralia Book VI! Very little outlining and no translating done, though.
March holds some interesting prospects, and with theee extra days, there’s a little more breathing room. Editing and rewrites will continue apace, particularly as I finally pick up and finish the rough draft to Sauragia 3! Yes, you heard that right. No more excuses or letting other things get in the way. That rough draft will be complete by month’s end. Then comes the long editing process. Either way, I have renewed my obligation to my weblog here, and promise that weekly posts are back to stay (as you may have seen throughout February), so there’s something to get excited about as well, right?
I’ll be finishing the month off at Texas Furry Fiesta vending once again in the Artist Alley (guess I’m just not a big enough name to merit the Dealer Den there yet), so if any of you are in the Dallas area that weekend (March 27th-29th) come by and say hello!
The Utility of Notepads
It’s hard to understate the value of taking notes as a writer. In today’s busy world, it is all too easy to have a good thought come to us, only to immediately lose it a second later as something else catches our eye. We need a means of recording those thoughts as quickly and efficiently as possible so that even if we forget about them by the end of the day, they are not lost forever. Some folks would simply whip out phones or other devices and type a few hasty words before moving on with their lives, but I have always preferred good old fashioned pencil & paper, and here are three reasons why.
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