I wasn't intending to do another update immediately; last weekend was the first weekend without Saturday morning cartoons, as you may have heard. That made this past Monday the perfect time to launch my Cliché Showcase series (I'm starting with cartoony villains). But when the time came, I just wasn't feeling it. Although I was excited to... Continue Reading →
Update: It Starts
I thought I'd take a short, casual recess from the super intense posts to write an update about my work. For two weeks, the above Progress Bar has been glowing at the top of the site. It means that I've finished the content edit for my first book, War of Exiles, and that I'm incredibly... Continue Reading →
A Mess of Small Goals
Man did April blow up in my face. If you follow this blog, you’ll know I had an incredibly clean, specific plan for April. A plan that started with a content edit of War of Exiles, the book I’ve been working on since 2005 through various phases of my writing career. A plan that was... Continue Reading →
Louis Santiago’s Fantasy Story Stats – Week 0: An Introduction
Disclaimer: The following ideas are based on the observations of an amateur fantasy writer. These ideas are absolutely not fact and should not be taken as more than suggestions for how to look at your own work—a tool that you use to supplement your writing at best. If you like the ideas you find here and... Continue Reading →
A Year Later
So I was on the bus with Chaos Mechanica last week after seeing The HughJackverine. It had been about two years since I'd last seen him (Mechanica, not HughJackverine), and talk eventually turned to work. Our days after Infinite Ammo have seen him get a position with Dual Shockers, a gaming website. And they've seen me...... Well,... Continue Reading →
Brand New Day – Week 15 – You Don’t Look Back
I was sitting at an old friend’s house. She (let’s call her Claire), like a lot of other friends, moved abroad last year, but she stopped by for the holidays to see family and friends. So I was glad to get an invite from her; not to be dramatic, but via a bunch of different... Continue Reading →
Brand New Day – Week 9 – When the Night Comes
When I was young, I used to get upset when the night came. A better word would probably be "afraid," but that implies that I was just scared of the dark (which I was, but it isn't that simple). I used to be afraid that the day was ending and I didn't do enough with... Continue Reading →
Brand New Day – Week 3 – Caught Between the Bell Curves
It's Thursday night. I want to knock out a post before I get to bed; I'm going to Queens Comic Con tomorrow with Kenney Broadway and Chaos Mechanica. It's an outing that was pretty exciting until I 8PM hit earlier and I realized that I somehow didn't get anything done for my book today. I know that's not exactly... Continue Reading →
Brand New Day – Week 1
Last week, on Wednesday, the 14th, I worked my last day at Borders. The rest of that week and the weekend that followed disappeared in a bunch of Borders closing parties (and the hang-overs that followed). Yesterday, Monday, the 19th, was a brand new day. In short, it was the beginning of my gamble to... Continue Reading →
Saying My Goodbyes
This isn't going to be another extremely bleak post; despite the title, I've decided that it won't because, although I still stand by everything I said in Preparing for the Storm (despite how embarrassingly true all of it was), I'm determined to not be as depressed as I was when I wrote that post. Today's my... Continue Reading →
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