Nothing is New

When it comes to air-frame designs, nothing you thought was original, is original. Turns out the Germans did it first. In fact just about all the advanced wings designed since the end of WWII were all first conceived by German…

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Weekend Update 18 Aug 2013

Writing Above is a screenshot of my WIP exported to RTF format. I like to read it on other devices and this is one way to do that. It’s about 204 pages and 49K words at this point in time…

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The Board

I had a major revelation about my current WIP this week and it meant pulling out about ten chapters of the book. They had not all been written, but a major subplot is now gone. This means reordering my remaining…

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Weekend Update 11 Aug 2013

Novel Writing came to a screeching halt this week as I had a major a-ha moment concerning a subplot involving the Votainion Empire. I would up pulling four thousand words and a dozen chapters out of the book. This left…

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Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward

I was moving right along on my latest novel when suddenly the brakes came on and the next thing I knew I had lost about four thousand words. Reading books on plot and structure and some heart-to-heart chats with a…

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Weekend Update 4 Aug 2013

  We were cleaning out the kid’s closet today and had enough shoes to make a fun picture of him. Those are his baseball cleats from age 5-12. We then took him to the sporting goods store to buy new…

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A New Store

I’ve decided to change my extremely un-lucrative web based product store from Cafe Press to Zazzle. Not in an effort to make money off my merchandising but instead to offer some new t-shirt designs. Sometimes you have to mix things…

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