Strange Imaginings

Experimenting With Plugins

Chris — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:10:18 +0000

I am trying a few different plugins for WordPress in an effort to utilize some of the tools available. I wonder when one will ultimately murder my site…

How I Deal With Writer’s Block

Chris — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:44:11 +0000

There are about a billion ways to combat writer’s block, at least if Google, Yahoo, and Bing are to be believed. They talk about things like exercise, working on something else, writing someplace different, and just about any other method you can think of. I am fortunate in that I tend to write in strange [...]

More Krug Is On The Way!

Chris — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:41:47 +0000

I just finished page 10 of the new Singularity Age story, and I am liking it! Two words: Space. Zombies.

The Future of Publishing is Here

Chris — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:46:07 +0000

This morning I ran across a recent article by Bruce McQuain titled The Democratization of Publishing. This is what I’ve been saying to any friends that will listen for the past couple of months! This is th ebusiness model I intend to utilize to sell my books. Inside the traditional publishing world the writers make [...]

On Writing Improvement

Chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:01:16 +0000

On writing improvement… (Yeah, I’m the improvement guy… The software is throwing an error on “On writing improvement”. There is some sort of recursion in there…) When I go back and read some of my earlier works, I feel stupid. Well, the guy I was when I wrote it was stupid. The guy I am [...]

Series Title At Last!

Chris — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:35:24 +0000

AAAAHHHH!!! I just realized the name of the series I am writing the first novel for… I call it - “The Gnostic” Yeah… I like that.

Vacation Time With Zombies

Chris — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:48:13 +0000

I am going to be taking some time off in July from my day job to work on the novel. I lack around 30k words, and I think I can hammer the bulk of that out in a 9 day stretch! It ain’t gotta be pretty, it just has to be finished. If I do [...]

slammed in pool head first

Chris — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:46:48 +0000

I started using Google analytics a couple of weeks ago to get a better look at my traffic, and found something strange this morning. One of yesterday’s visitors came to my website by searching for the following sentence in Google: slammed in pool head first That’s crazy! The link to my Dark Vignette “Mysterious Ways” [...]

Slipstream

Chris — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:40:04 +0000

I have been reading up on the subject of genre, and I think it is safe to say that a lot of my work falls neatly into the genre of slipstream. Here is an interesting little blog post on the subject. It’s a bit self-aggrandizing towards the genre, but informative. And this is the original [...]

Lost My Head

Chris — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:18:14 +0000

I lost my phone this weekend. It is amazing how reliant I am on the damned thing! It will be good when they can finally implant this gear into our skulls, and we don’t have to worry about losing our phones anymore. No, then we’ll only have to worry about people hacking our brains at [...]