Web Comics

There seem to be two commonalities with webcomics:
1) The particularly GOOD ones (i.e. excellent artwork, compelling storylines) very often incur delays in new pages due to some outlandish drama in the artist’s life. As though the quality of the artwork and story is directly proportional to how much that artist’s life gets in the [...]

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Pardon me for writing

Several chapters in to the re-read and it is hard not to bring out the red pen. There’s some glaring mistakes, typos, etc, that I’m thinking, “oh, I can just fix that right now.” But I can’t because then I’ll start line editing, and it’s not ready for that yet.
One of the main [...]

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On “new age hogwash”

I’ve often quipped that one day, I’m going to write my own religion. I might still. And for someone whose religious views came from some old text (or a purportedly old text), it’ll probably come off as 1) derivative and/or 2) new age hogwash. Here’s the thing: I don’t care what they [...]

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A non-Elewirian post

There’s always some other piece of writing on the back burner while working on ALUTK. This one doesn’t have a proper name, but I refer to it (in my own head) as “The Ghost Story” even though the “ghost” in it isn’t actually dead. He likes to remind me of that occasionally, lest [...]

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Location, location, location

Is there anything inherantly wrong with setting the book in Massachusetts?  Apart from the idea that Salem seems rather a cliche in terms of tolerance of witchcraft.  Did I set it there *because* I don’t have such ingrained memories of it as I would say, Pennsylvania, where I grew up?  PA isn’t part of New [...]

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Have I Read This Before?

So, I was without my laptop for nearly a week, and then after I got it back, it was terribly slow due to the fact that the repairs didn’t cover my 3rd party RAM card which had gone zzzt at the same time the logic board went zzzt. Ah, technology. But, it’s back [...]

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