Month: August 2014

Seven Things No One Will Tell You About Being a Writer

1) REDACTED 2) REDACTED 3) REDACTED 4) REDACTED 5) REDACTED 6) REDACTED 7) What? I specifically said no one was going to tell you. Really, you only have yourself to blame. Just be glad I didn’t RickRoll you.

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What Counts as Writing?

Hanging around with friends and other panelists of the GenCon Writer’s Symposium this year, I was hit with an unexpected question several different times. “So, are you trying to be an author, or a comedian?” The question caught me off guard, although in retrospect, it probably shouldn’t have. People love labels and categories. It makes things easier […]

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Slushie Machine: Escape the pile

Hey gang. I’ve just returned from GenCon in Indianapolis, and while I had a wonderful time as always, (more on that later) after talking to a group of aspiring authors, I was once again struck by how often the same questions about submitting stories and working with markets keep coming up. This stuff is old […]

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Robin Williams and Depression as a Muse

This post is about comedy, but there won’t be anything funny about it. In truth, I’ve been looking for a way to share much of what I’m about to say for a long time now without knowing how. But today seems as appropriate as any. For those of you who don’t know, Robin Williams, the […]

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Daily Dose of Awesome

    This is just about the coolest space picture I’ve ever seen. Let me tell you why. What we’ve got here is a picture taken from inside the Saturn system by our intrepid space probe, Cassini. NASA launched this plucky little bugger back in 1997 when  every twelve-year-old girl in the country was losing […]

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I’ve seen Guardians of the Galaxy Before…

So let me get this straight. A cocky American male with a habit of shooting first, making 80’s pop culture references, and wearing AMAZING coats is ripped away from Earth to a remote part of the galaxy, where he accidently get swept up with a motley band of criminals who escape their confinement, including a muscle-bound warrior, a tiny wise-ass, a […]

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