I've been thinking about my process for building scenes and crafting prose. Slowly, I'm admitting to myself I go for dialog above description. If a building needs to appear in the story, my first instinct is to have the characters talk about the building. ("Huh. Your apartment looks like the one from Ghostbusters." "What, the… Continue reading Dialog or Get the Chatter Down
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Well C’mon and Let Me Know…Should I stay or should I go?
I've been updating this blog for well over three years now. Two entries ago, I completed part one of Ivre. You can see all the posts here or just visit the initial post in the series here. There's still more to come with the book. Two more parts to revise and post. I've yet to… Continue reading Well C’mon and Let Me Know…Should I stay or should I go?
Ivre – Part 1: Arrival, Chapter 10
Ivre by Andrija Popovic (The following is an initial draft of this work. All content is (c) Andrija Popovic 2015) A box within a box. The great watchers laugh at me. The beast flailed in the ocean's depths, grasping at the tiny motes of energy floating around. Fish. Squid. Survivors of the ship which carried… Continue reading Ivre – Part 1: Arrival, Chapter 10
Winter in Sarajevo
(Note: This is mostly mirrored from my personal journal. You can visit the original here.) As a cap to my year-long adventure attending conferences with "World" in the title, I will be at this year's World Fantasy Convention. Held in the lovely Hyatt Crystal City from Thursday the 6th until Sunday the 9th, this will… Continue reading Winter in Sarajevo
Deprecation & Satire
Image taken from page 7 of 'The Speaker's Eye, a satire. By F. R', a photo by The British Library on Flickr.This may be the last of my image posts to WordPress via the automatic sharing. Apparently it's being deprecated, along with LIveJournal. Thus, things change and die off, leaving me to rig up HTML… Continue reading Deprecation & Satire
Metaphysical Graffiti
StMarysMonastary-23, a photo by Urdith on Flickr.Inspiration for a future project.
Short Story Note: Mustache & Portrait
Kenyon Cox, a photo by Smithsonian Institution on Flickr.A young woman/urban explorer breaks into a ruined antebellum mansion from her youth to confront a painting of a dark man with a wire-bristle mustache which terrified her as a child.
Story Idea – Office Crowd
City, crowded office space, a photo by The Library of Virginia on Flickr.What if the structure of reality itself depended on keeping someone in their soul-crushing office job? What would it do to the person assigned to keep this office drone miserable? Via Flickr: Title: City, crowded office space Creator: Adolph B. Rice Studio Date:… Continue reading Story Idea – Office Crowd
Welcome to the World of the Future
I cannot escape it. The time has come to once again set mile-markers in the ground and see how I do. And there is still one big item looming on my personal goals: Ivre - at this point, the novel is over 130,000 words and I'm still 14 or so scenes from completing it. At… Continue reading Welcome to the World of the Future
Dragon*Con thoughts
This was my first trip to Dragon*Con, and it was a first for my lady as well. My Livejournal will have more information on the con as a whole, but I wanted to bring up the more writerly aspects of the conference and the panels I attended. "The Wacky World of Writing" - Er, I… Continue reading Dragon*Con thoughts
Biomechanoid Blues 