Recent content by ThinkerX

Transforming the vision in your head to the written word in a coherent, readable manner is tough. It takes experience. Lots of experience. Which means writing, and accepting that your first effort will fall far short of that vision. But keep at it.

I live in an area prone to forest fires. A few years ago, a not fully extinguished campfire took off and incinerated an area larger than some states (well, maybe.) My route ran right along its edge for a while, on the one side of the road I passed scorched dirt within ten feet of the blacktop...

Oh yes. Now, imagine a completely wasted, falling down drunk undergoing the change to wolf form. Probably just curl up and sleep rather than run amok.

Here: Have some bubble wrap. If popping it helps, then you know. (I brought some bubble wrap to gal at work undergoing a 5 kids plus mother-in-law induced nervous breakdown. She said it helped.)

My last vacation was when I took the daughter to Disneyland - in 2011. One week. I have not had more than two consecutive days off since then.

Treasure those vacation moments. Things like that make life worth living.

...since I activated the Kindle Fire and downloaded my first E-Book on it, a novella named 'Isosceles Moon.' Since then, I have downloaded a grand total of 193 E-Books. Of these, about a dozen, give or take, are solitary short stories. Delete those from the list. There were about ten full...

I wish you well.

Fire. Anything lower has a good chance of catching fire. We have devastating forest fires in my area. As a preventive measure, the forestry people will clear swaths of land to act as firebreaks. They won't cut most of the trees - but they do remove the brush, and the lower branches. That...

My life is filled with distractions. Got the plants going in the greenhouse a couple weeks ago. Mowed the lawn today. trying to avoid some heavy duty cleaning. Vehicle issues - just went and picked up the one rig a hour ago. Summer is starting, which means I start riding the bicycle daily...

I built a lot of worlds decades ago, each revolving around a specific theme. Then, upon closer inspection, I realized that their similarities outweighed the differences by far, so I took t combining them. Helping me with this realization was that these 'worlds,' were, in truth, but *parts* of...

I begin each new year with a schedule for writing. This years schedule included: 1 - rewrite and edit of the long novella/short novel 'Empire: Country' by April (done, though a couple days late), 2 - writing 'Reset,' a extremely grim ultra far-future novelette for the April NaNo (done, but it...

My stories are set in a large empire reeling from the aftermath of a devastating, decades long invasion by another power. The Empire triumphed, though just barely, and to secure that victory, had to resort to social and technological innovations. Several of the major characters are veterans of...

I see a white 'x' inside a black square, which in turn is surrounded by a white square. Very small, too.

Cussler gives credit to his 'cowriters' now. I was referring to his older works that cited him as full author. I had doubts about that then and now. As to popularity, he has three things going for him: 1 - an active, intense writing style with plenty of tension and cliffhangers; 2 - a...