So for the last few years, come November, I have been doing my own little version of Nanowrimo called “Nanofimo”—National Novel Finishing Month. Actually, I rarely actually finish anything in November, but what I try to do is slam a few more thousand words on existing works and get them a little farther along. My […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
So the new novella has been out for three whole days now, and I have learned a few things, which I will inflict on you in case any of you have ever thought of self-publishing, or in case you already self-publish and want to point and laugh at someone else (or perhaps nod knowingly and […]
Soooo….let’s just sweep the chaos of the last twenty-four hours aside for the moment… Hi, internet! I have a new novella out! It is live and there are no more horrifying errors with chapter duplication! You should read it! On Smashwords On Amazon It will propagate out to other sites when Smashwords gets around to […]
I spent today in the bowels of the beast, by which I mean Amazon and Smashwords. Most of the Amazon time was spent trying to figure out how I tell it that I don’t want to be exclusive to Kindle and just hitting “Save” until it told me it was in review and I couldn’t […]
I have a shiny edited file of the Goblin novella in my hot little hand. I am trying to format it for self-pub. I HATE EVERYTHING THAT HAS EVER LIVED AND I’M NOT FEELING GREAT ABOUT FUTURE GENERATIONS EITHER I stripped everything out in a text editor and then Kevin said “Hey, you can do […]
Today I received a brand-new never before seen piece of spam. Sent to the Red Wombat Studio Form: Kathie wrote: Hello, I am writing in an unusual case … Some time ago, I used your services, and one of your employees face was familiar to me. At dinner with my wife, it turned out that […]
I have been trying for three days to make Real Art. Art that was interesting and complex and which I could look at and go “I have made a Cool Thing and the world is better for it.” After one questionable and one outright miserable failure that self-destructed, I have returned to my artistic roots. […]
There’s a small painful lump in my left armpit and I THINK it’s a clogged pore because I don’t think you get cancer overnight but maybe it’s been there forever and it just started hurting today except it hurts exactly like a zit but maybe that’s what cancer hurts like I don’t know so I […]
The Oatmeal has a great thing up about Columbus Day. Go read it, I’ll wait. This was rather relevant to me today because I’ve been on planes a lot, and was reading A Voyage Long and Strange by Horwitz, which is about the stuff that happened in America between 1492 and the Pilgrims. Spoiler: There’s […]
Well, the government has moved into spoiled brat mode, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it. So I’m gonna go build something with stone. I have a nice load of rough cobbles at a manageable size, should be just enough to put up a swale. I’ve been wanting to build a […]