“Are you on a diet or something?” This question came about because the group was reading a little scifi I’d written wherein the characters were (GASP!), eating. One character had lunch (a turkey sandwich, light mayo). Next, he had dinner with a friend: Dinner turned out to be a Mexican Sushi place in one...
I decided to take the laptop to work. I wait as long as I can stand to take my lunch hour (usually around 3 pm, or 5 hours into my 11 hour schedule), then I go off into the quietest corner of the break area I can find, plug in my ear buds, crank...
So I’ve been crazy busy with the new job. I probably owe a couple of you an email. It’s not going to get any less busy when I go into my regular schedule. Right now I’m in training, which will last 2 more weeks. It’s difficult to get into a rhythm when you know...
This is a hurdle: More often than not, we see hurdles as barriers we cannot overcome. We make them into walls. But they’re not walls. They’re just obstacles, and you can soar over obstacles. Sure, you might trip now and then, maybe skin your knee or scrape your elbows, but it can be done....
Been a busy December for me. Among other things, I have been researching the various avenues available to authors to take control of their careers. Although I have the desire to be published via the traditional route, I have never intended to sit idly by if that doesn’t work out. This storytelling thing is...
Writing Year in Review I started 18 new Scrivener Projects in 2012. This shows a lot of restraint on my part. (I have double that and change in my 2011 writing folder) That breaks down to 5 novel projects, and 13 short story projects. Novels this year (numbers are rounded for expediency): 102k on...
It’s been a weird couple of weeks. I continue to write and push forward but I had a few days where no words hit the page. Definitely in the home stretch, though. After breaking all the characters up for a time, I’ve just managed to bring them all back together for the wild ride...
When I lived alone, before there were cats and people around all the freaking time (or so it seems), I would sit at my desk with some good music on repeat, light a candle, and write for hours uninterrupted. Seems that kind of focus gets lost these days, but every once in a while,...
I hate the way my brain works sometimes. I really do. When I was computerless, all I could think about was how I wasn’t writing and how that was driving me up a wall. When I got my computer back, I sat down all full of energy and raring to go and promptly wrote…...
Been quiet for a few days due to stuff. Job Stuff. Still nothing on the job front. Aside from figuring out how to make my resume flash with red and blue lights, I don’t know what else to do to get someone to take notice. Unemployment Stuff. After letting me go, my former employer...
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Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and Hugo Nominated Podcast Producer/Host who lives in Colorado and writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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