Brilliant Ideas From My Lax Brain

So, I was thinking over the last day and a half. This is a monumental event for me because I don’t usually think. Of course I’m being entirely goofy, but regardless, I have an interesting thought. I would like to throw up to anyone and everyone who reads my novel or anything related to my […]

Unfinished Business

I started going through all my document folders yesterday in search of a story I had written but never finished years ago that I thought would do well to get my attention for a while. I think it’s a good novella or long short or whatever you want to call it. Well, in that process […]

…Kinds…

There’s always been a fascination with the way people create fantasy worlds for me. I do it every so often in the form of a map, but for this current project I have yet to take the plunge and draw something. That is on purpose. I don’t want to design a map and then get […]

The World in the Satin Bag

Well I changed the name to the blog because Parvulus Mens Mentis Mundus, while fascinating, doesn’t quite fit into the scheme of what I’m doing here. That and I had a stroke of creative genius at work Wednesday about the name for this YA novel I’ll be writing: The World in the Satin Bag. That’s […]

Story Beginnings and Story Ends

What exactly is it about writing beginnings that is so difficult for me? I’ve always found that when trying to write anything that I intend to be longer than a short story, the beginning paragraphs become a barrier that I can’t seem to pass. I wrote three different beginnings for this new story that will […]

Good News & Bad News

As the post says I have good news and bad news. I’m going to give the bad news first so that hopefully the good news will soften the blow. As some of you may already know, Steve Irwin “The Crocodile Hunter” passed away yesterday. He was killed by a stingray barb to the heart while […]