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  • The Surprises of Blogging

    Blogging is a delightfully unpredictable hobby. Having blogged for over two years now, I can safely say that what I regularly post today is not what I envisioned for my blog when I started. If you ever check out my earliest posts, it’s obvious that I was in full college essay mode, writing long paragraphs… Read more

  • Tolkien on Escapism

    I was ranging the Internet tonight and came across this quote by J.R.R. Tolkien. Food for thought for writers, poets, and all other storytellers. Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of… Read more

  • A Letter to 100-Year-Old Me

    Write a letter to your hundred-year-old self. Well, Jake, I have a few things to say. First of all, since you’re such a worrywort, I just want to let you know that if you’re whining and cringing over how much worse society has gotten, let me remind you that it always had problems and they’re… Read more

  • Thoughts on Boredom

    What bores you? Boredom bores me. Okay, that’s a bit of a glib answer. Let me try again. What bores me? Being unable to exercise my artistic skills. Being unable to imagine and create gets under my skin if I’m not careful. Maybe it’s a curse of the artistic mind, but I often feel like… Read more

  • A Thought on the Horror Genre

    I don’t have any long discussion on life, writing and the universe planned today. Just a brief thought on the topic of story genres: The difference between the horror genre and the action genre is whether or not the protagonist has a shotgun. Cheers. *** My latest book, The Trickster’s Lament, is currently available on… Read more

  • I Long to Destroy a Single Word

    If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why? Censorship is something I generally take a dim view of, but if I was given the power to ban just one word, I would ban – well, let’s see, there are several words that irk me, but if I… Read more