Writing Bits and Pieces, Going Rogue
What happens when you spend all that time making an outline and then toss it aside when you’re in the heat of a first draft?… Read More »Writing Bits and Pieces, Going Rogue
What happens when you spend all that time making an outline and then toss it aside when you’re in the heat of a first draft?… Read More »Writing Bits and Pieces, Going Rogue
If you’ve read my novel Starstrikers, or have served in the military, you are no-doubt familiar with unit coins. The unit you are assigned to… Read More »Military Challenge Coins
This week I had to rewrite a scene or two and remove a character and replace him with another. I don’t want to risk any… Read More »Writing Bits and Pieces – Removing a Character
Mounting The Griffin was not going to be a large and heavy model, like the Renoke. It was a smaller starship than the GCU Sokol… Read More »GCU Griffin Build, Part 2
The above scene from my WIP is a perfect example of a Second Act hurdle that your main characters must face and eventually overcome. I’ve… Read More »Writing Bits and Pieces – Second Act Conflict
This is my first week back from break and I often feel out of touch with my WIP. So I take some time to re-read… Read More »Novel Bits and Pieces – Re-Reading Before Writing
I used to just write my novels and never worry about crafting a message. I mean, they were just supposed to be fun reads, I… Read More »Novel Bits and Pieces: Theme
I don’t normally just build random spaceship models these days. I have a plan, as the Cylons would say. That plan is closely related to… Read More »Upcoming Model Builds for 2016
Weathering This is one of my favorite steps in modeling. I love making a model look like it just came out of the real world… Read More »Triak Starfighter Build, Part 5
All of the parts and pieces finally come together in this post. This has been a fairly quick and dirty build for me. I’ve never… Read More »Triak Starfighter Build, Part 3