• How To Finish Your First Draft: Four Rules for Survival

    How To Finish Your First Draft: Four Rules for Survival

    A first draft is a battlefield of ideas tearing themselves apart. As you charge for the objective, injured ideas beg for your attention, plotting errors lead to landmines going off seemingly at random, research fox-holes beckon you to take a break and dive into something safe and intriguing, and critics (internal and external) direct bullets of self-doubt and flamethrowers of fear.

  • Chapter 4: Shadow

    Chapter 4: Shadow

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  • Chapter 1: Gunshot (Goldblum Edition)

    Chapter 1: Gunshot (Goldblum Edition)

    You asked for it, you paid for it, so here it is! In this surprisingly challenging process I learned two things: 1) Jeff Goldblum is irreplaceable. I was cry-laughing trying to study his way of talking. 2) Perhaps I should have started with an impression I actually knew how to do. You be the judge.

  • Impressions impressions

    Thanks everybody for bootstrapping us up to the first patreon goal! Tomorrow night I’ll bone up on my Jeff Goldblum. I’m already sweating! Definitely a challenge but, life… finds a way? If I do another impression-based goal, who would you want to hear? Random teaser: One of the following people may or may not eventually […]

  • Chapters 0-3 in pdf

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  • Cold Morning Launch

    Cold Morning Launch

    Howdy! I’m launching an online, free to read, web-serial at cold-morning.com – a globe-trotting, knuckle-popping, urban fantasy set in 1935, following the trials of Mark Simmons, who wants really badly to be called Markus Summanus, Professional Adventurer. This blog will still see updates from me, mostly when I travel. which I haven’t been doing much of […]

  • Chapter 3: Shelter

    Chapter 3: Shelter

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  • Chapter 2:2

    Chapter 2:2

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  • Chapter 2: Glimmer

    Chapter 2: Glimmer

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  • Chapter 1:2

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