I got to take off this past weekend for a writers’ retreat with folks from Tavern Tall Tales. It was a bit of an adventure. We talked shop, swapped stories, and gave each other writing/publishing advice. The whole weekend was a great get away.
I’ve been creating a special topics research class for a minute now. We can pitch class ideas for the May Intersession (a weird pseudo-semester outside our normal 3). Usually, it is an experimental time to try out a new class idea or concept. There have been Bridge playing classes, trips to far-off countries, Star Wars philosophy, and volunteer events with the Special Olympics. I decided to pitch ‘rubber suit monster movie appreciation’ and got it!
Now I just had to choose my film list…
It’s been a while but maybe this time it’ll stick. I’ve been writing about three pages a day for the last month. Slowly it has been paying off. Hopefully, I’ll keep this momentum and maybe finally get a few projects out the doors.
Got any favorite places to submit short fiction?
Seemingly a lifetime ago, I was an illiterate homeschooler with a lot of free time on my hands and a love of video games. Just about the only thing I could ever think about was wanting to or trying to create video games. Not being able to read, however, usually put a stop to that. I did my fair share of copying Atari 400 command lines just to watch the river or the fireworks animations but that wasn’t really learning how to code. I was just copying symbols from a book. That all changed when my brothers “acquired” a copy of RPG Maker ’95.
Something that I knew I HAD to do while writing Cloudsea was create the world from the ground up. It had to be so well developed outside of the chapters that the story would just pour naturally from my notes without any work from me. If I would just build the worlds, the rest would follow. After more than a decade of that not working, I just started writing stories loosely in the world.
That’s when it finally started to click.
Calculating Normals 
You must be logged in to post a comment.