Before I get into my thoughts, I wanted to thank everyone who liked The Turning Point. I usually don't get a lot of attention here in my small corner of wordpress (especially since all of my entertainment posts went over to Infinite Ammo) so getting likes from four people (avelainegauvin, mavisephaneuf, arienneflamand, and, of course, chaosmechanica) at once was really... Continue Reading →
Infinite Ammo
The weeks since my last post, "The Turning Point", have been pretty hectic. Work is, naturally, depressing, and afterward home is—more so than before—a constant effort to get as much professional work done as humanly possible. Why "more so than before"? Because directly after "The Turning Point", I rallied Chaos Mechanica to start on that new... Continue Reading →
Louis Santiago @ RAA
My mother said, "Look at that lamppost! I gotta get a picture!" I thought it was adorable because my mother is probably the most adorable person in the world. But also because I'd thought the same thing the last time I'd taken that bike path to Fort Tilden from Riis Park. I stopped thinking it... Continue Reading →
A Salute to Rockaway
Hey, everyone. By way of a quick update, I've been busy hauling artwork to Far Rockaway for the Rockaway Artists Alliance's A Salute to Rockaway exhibit. I've submitted six photos I was pretty proud of from my trips to Rockaway Beach and Fort Tilden. Pieces like Far Shore, Lagan, and POOPDICK. Again, that's POOPDICK. The... Continue Reading →
6 Degrees of Bad Fantasy
Most mornings, when pretty much everyone ever is still asleep, I'm shelving in the Sci-Fi / Fantasy section at my job and listening to an audio book on my iPod. It's a new thing for me, listening to the audio book, but it's something I enjoy... Well, something I enjoyed until I decided it would... Continue Reading →
A Quick Update
I just thought I'd check in with you guys-I haven't been the best blogger in the universe, I know. This is because my free time = Work, Tutoring, Writing, Editing, Character Design. Regardless, the latter part of all of that means I'll be posting new content sooner than later. And in the meantime, at least... Continue Reading →
The Hallucinations Will Not Come
It's 7 PM and it's at least 10 degrees hotter in the dining room than it is outside. The dining room, now full of the brain cell-eating tang of very, very strong markers and a cup long emptied of ice water. Louis is ready to start hallucinating. He feels it's the next step after the... Continue Reading →
The Editing Process
Around when his eyes start to sting and his head begins to throb, Louis realizes he misses the writing process and very much prefers it to the editing process. Fondly, he remembers that the former was like this: -Louis sits down at his computer and rereads the pages he wrote the previous day (or the... Continue Reading →
Character Design: Why Bother?
I was sitting in class at City College once, not taking notes - drawing instead. One of my peers looked over and asked what I was doing. I turned my book so she could see a sketch of one of my favorite main characters. It wasn't enough for her. "Who's that?" I told her and... Continue Reading →
Starting a War
A Different Experience From the beginning, my approach to story telling has been grounded in a desire to give readers something fresh. But I realized early on that different experiences go further for making stories fantastic than different worlds do; a novel set in a world full of dwarves, elves, and orcs gains strength from... Continue Reading →
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