Hey Everyone! This Weekend, I’m at ConFusion! Here’s my Schedule for Sunday: Laser Guns and Gravity Canons: War in Deep Space Sunday 1:00PM PetoskeyWe’ve come a long way from Flash Gordon’s pew-pew laser effects. From Ninefox Gambit’s eldritch special attacks to The Expanse’s inventive use of real-world physics, what does warfare look like in modern …
Hey Everyone! This Weekend, I’m at ConFusion! Here’s my Schedule for Saturday: Effective Training Sequences in Prose Fiction: Saturday 1:00PM InterlochenIn movies such as How To Train Your Dragon, the sequence in which our dashing hero bumbles through training and eventually triumphs usually has a stirring score and a lot of quick transitions to back …
Hey Everyone! This Weekend, I’m at ConFusion! Here’s my Schedule for Friday: Managing and Overcoming Professional Burnout: Friday 1:00PM CharlevoixThe Mayo Clinic defines burnout as “a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity.” It can affect people of all professions, but it presents …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: ConFusion is Tomorrow!!! I’ll be there. Will you? Be sure to check out the Events page for all the details! If you’re in the area, come say “Hi!” Thing #2: Queen’s Will Update: Drafting …
It’s been raining all day. And not just the cold misty stuff that’s common this time of year either. Outside it’s raining like it means it. So I’ve been stuck in the house and doing not much of anything this past weekend. And it’s bothering me. Maybe, like me, you’ve gotten so used to going, …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Went back to reality – back to the day job this week. Reality is kinda what you make of it or, rather, what you focus on. So focus on the good stuff. Thing #2: …
Welcome, Everyone, to the first Blog Post of the New Year! If you’ve followed me here from 2019, thanks for sticking with me, and, if you’re new to the Blog, Welcome aboard! This year while, empirically, no different than any other, feels particularly significant. For starters, 2020 is an election year. I don’t normally get …
Welcome, everyone to the First installment of Five Thing Thursday for 2020 and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! This year, I hope you find everything you’re looking for. Thing #2: Vehicle problems suck. Intermittent vehicle problems do not suck intermittently. Thing #3: The latest edition of …
Here we are at the final Blog post of 2019 and I’d like to take a moment to look back at the past year, focusing on some memorable moments. It’s been…Well, maybe it’s just me, but it seems like (for at least the last 4-5 years anyway) right about this time, I keep hearing people …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: I am *So* sleeping in today. Thing #2: QUEEN’S WILL update: I’m about 6-6.5 thousand words into the first draft. I’m closing in on the magic 10K number which will then become (after polishing …