Category: Creative Writing

• July 7, 2024

  Sometimes, winning is just showing up.

  With tons of changes going on at the day job, I’m feeling anxious and worn out, and I didn’t have a topic to blog about today. I’m tired. I don’t feel like writing a post here on WordPress. It feels like an unnecessary expenditure of energy I don’t have. So I came up with this…
• July 6, 2024

  I am beyond excited about my prequel

  I am just so excited about my prequel. I love this story so much. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s recognizing how I’ve grown as a writer over the course of writing and getting feedback from editors on the original trilogy that came first. Maybe it’s the fun I’m having joining old characters…
• July 3, 2024

  Thoughts on developmental editing

  I honestly kind of enjoy developmental editing. Not as much as I enjoy line editing, where everything sitting there in front of me, ready to go, and the hard work–as I judge it–is already done. Still, I enjoy watching my stories truly come together and take shape during my developmental editing process. I write first…
• July 2, 2024

  My current projects

  I haven’t posted an update in a while, so I figured I would let you know what’s going on in my world and what my current projects are. They are all prequel and book three related! As I announced a couple of days ago, Book three of the Herezoth trilogy, The King’s Sons: The Fight…
• June 30, 2024

  COVER REVEAL!!! Book THREE of the Herezoth Trilogy is coming your way Nov. 1!

  

  I’m SOOO excited to reveal the cover and a draft of the back cover for book three of the Herezoth Trilogy, coming November 1, 2024. This means . . . and I’m so excited about it . . . the whole trilogy will be available in time for the Christmas season. The whole trilogy! The…
• June 28, 2024

  I need to read “Pride and Prejudice” again

  I’ve read Pride and Prejudice multiple times, but it’s been years, for sure. Possibly a decade or more. It’s time to read it again. Jane Austen is one of my favorite novelists of all time. Her wit, character development, and sense of the reality and the foibles of fallen human nature are pretty much unmatched.…
• June 27, 2024

  “Magic Council” Excerpt: Vane meets August

  Here is a fun excerpt that I read on my first Facebook live: Vane meets August. ***SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT.*** (Nothing beyond what you would see in a trailer) Again, nothing beyond what you would see in a trailer. However, if you don’t want to know what would be in a trailer, you shouldn’t read further…
• June 26, 2024

  Guard your mind

  The culture of the West today is utterly depraved. It makes my heart sad, but the collapse of the West is undeniable at this point. The art, books, and music being produced are flat at best, and at worst openly promote selfishness, self-aggrandizement, glorification of sin, and victim mentalities that help no one and only…
• June 25, 2024

  Some ideas for future projects

  The Herezoth trilogy will not be the end of Herezoth. I don’t know which other projects I’ll pick up, but I have a bunch of possibilities of where to go next. First up, of course, is the prequel I have mentioned a few times. I have a draft of it, and I’m very happy with…
• June 24, 2024

  Don’t be afraid to be an amateur

  One of my favorite quotes is by G. K. Chesterton, as are MANY of my favorite quotes. The one I’m thinking of right now basically says: “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” Obviously, this doesn’t apply to literally every situation. The math behind constructing a bridge is NOT worth doing…