I’ve got a stack of cover CDs on my desk that I haven’t browsed. They arrive one by one with each issue of a couple of magazines to which I subscribe—3D World and Computer Arts. There was a time I would pop these CDs in as soon as I got them, install whatever free applications were burned onto them, and experiment. Since I’ve started “blogging” regularly, though, I haven’t really had a chance to play with new software. Next month…
The sun set in the Land Beyond, and as the desert dust hung thickly, the sky became a fiery red. That was going to be the first line of my first published novel, written at 16. I was an aspiring writer back then, and all I wanted to do was write novels, nothing but novels. I was going to have a string of them, one right after the other, sequels to sequels and prequels galore, part ones and twos, then…
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Brendan finally claimed June’s egg tonight, and I’ve just happily sent off his prize. For some reason, the act of my sending the print to Brendan reminded me of a contest I entered last year. The assignment was to use a list of ten rather obscure words in one sentence. The prize? The winner’s face on one of Davezilla‘s Blogger Tarot Cards. For posterity’s sake, here’s my favorite of my four entries, with the ten words in bold font: Quite…
Last week on my way to work I had a pretty good run with the lights—all green and easy driving, the path all clear in front of me. I had a strong feeling that it would have continued all the way to my destination, if it hadn’t been for some Sunday driver at the wheel of a pickup truck. The guy cut cleanly but slowly in front of me from some side street while I was driving straight ahead at…