Game of Thrones Premier
Since I started talking about HBO’s new series, Game of Thrones, based on George R R Martin’s books, I guess I might as well comment on the first episode. It just finished, and I gotta say: it rocked. I might …
Author: Michael Kingswood
Literary Douchebags – or – My Critique of the New York Times Review of Game of Thrones
I got home from work early today. While I did check in on the various social sites at the office (sue me), I didn’t catch the hubbub over the New York Times’ review of Game of Thrones until just now. …
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Gunfight at the Imagination Movers
It’s been a good evening. Earlier, my wife and I took our too oldest (ages 3 and 2) to the Imagination Movers concert. No, there wasn’t a gunfight a the concert. I was just going for a catchy post title. …
Making Progress and Burning Flicks
With just shy of 1,500 words written tonight, I’ve topped 52,000 total on Masters so far. I didn’t get that much done in the writing world yesterday, only 300 or 400 words. But that’s ok. Yesterday, I rode 46.3 miles …
Hurry Up and Wait
Wow. Last night, before starting work on Masters, I finally compiled Damsel into .doc format for submission to Smashwords. I’d been delaying doing this because I’d had some difficulty with Falling Softly, and was a bit annoyed. But I think …
Pivotal Moments
I’m working on Masters again tonight, and I just finished a pivotal moment. Well, two actually. First, I finished the chapter where the hero fully discovers the nature of the big bad villains. And, you guessed it, they’re bad. Quite …
When Children Throw A Tantrum…
I don’t intend to go into politics too much on this blog. This is my professional writing blog, and I’m not sure how appropriate (or wise) political discussions are in that context. That said, I gotta put my two cents …
I hate when this happens…
Ugh. The writing is hard this week. The latest update to Scrivener has a cool feature. You could always set targets for each writing session, by word count. In the new version, you can assign a due date for the …
Pen Name and a Facebook Faux Pas
When I decided to start this writing thing, I determined that I was going to use a pen name. For a couple reasons: I have a professional career already, and don’t really want to intertwine my writing with that career. …
Clever Lady
My wife is too clever by far, sometimes. Saturday afternoon, we were talking about movies, and the conversation turned to Kevin Spacey. I mentioned how he rocked in Seven and in The Usual Suspects, and she replied that she had …