Planning hiking trips to photograph the bright fall colors got me thinking of all the things we do to get those incredible nature photos. Hiking several miles up a steep, rocky path. Waiting for hours until sunset. Waking before dawn to capture the sunrise. Often, I’ll go out in the middle of a snowstorm or…
You visit a haunted house. Bad things happen. Either you’re scarred for life or you become one of the ghosts now haunting the house. Haunted location stories have a straightforward storyline. I’m currently writing several and I’ve been struggling to make them unique. Yes, I know there’s nothing new under the sun but you don’t…
The full moon rose to welcome October, the Month of Horror. Spirits crawled out to absorb its energizing light. Its glow revealed a monster’s true face. Did you hear their violent cry? Yesterday, if you were outside around 5pm EST, you could’ve seen the Harvest Moon. I missed it. Though, with the clouds in the…
When ebooks first came out, I looked and them and thought, ick. Those aren’t real books. Then, I realized they were cheaper than paper. I became a believer. You’d think I’d learn my lesson. I had a similar reaction when audio picked up steam. Then, someone I knew kept talking about the podcasts they enjoyed….
I’ve hiked the Cornish Trail in Hudson Highlands State Park a couple of times. It’s a pretty chill walk with a nice abandoned building about 1 mile in. I spotted something different over the weekend. Maybe it’s new. More likely, I hadn’t noticed it. The wooden gazebo sat atop the hill a little off the…
Writing was my first love but, since college, I’ve also gravitated towards photographing architecture and landscapes. Then, one year, I broke my camera and I didn’t have the money to replace it. For awhile, I was stuck with my phone. I’m about the date myself, but back in my day, camera on phones were irritating….
If my computer could talk, it would be cursing me out. Recently, before the pandemic, I bought a Surface Laptop 3 with an AMD Ryzen 5 processor. It sat right at the top of my budget. The laptop does what I need and I can start getting into 3D graphics. My recent project pushed my…
Spiritfarer on the Nintendo Switch has become one of my new favorite obsessions. The game is beautiful. It looks like something out of a Studio Ghibli movie. The boat, especially, is giving me Howl’s Moving Castle flashbacks. It’s got a lot to teach you about building an engaging world. Well-Rouded People You play Stella as…
If you’ve been around the interwebs (not my word but I love it) or this blog for a while, you may have seen some animated book covers. I don’t know yet if they’ve taken off. But, they are good at getting attention online. And, they can be videos. You know how social media loves videos….
When looking for fantasy creature inspiration, I try to stay away from western stories. They’ve been done to death. There are other places in the world besides Europe and the United State. For some reason, people tend to default to that. I just want to see something else. Grootslang, great snake, lives in a cave…
