Image via Wikipedia I have a lot of strange things on my hard drive. In the process of moving things over from my modestly-large drive on my big laptop to my surprisingly-larger hard drive on my netbook, I’ve been going through some of the more unusual selections (with a healthy dose of "where the hell did [...]
A quick note to detail the cool presents I got for my birthday/Christmas this year. Birthday Fairyland Brownies from CCP (quite tasty!) An Optimus Prime bobblehead from A $75 Best Buy gift card from and A DVD of the new Star Trek movie from my mom The Welcome to the Jungle Dresden Files graphic novel, also from [...]
Image via Wikipedia Note: As people comment here and in other places, I plan to update this with footnotes providing citations for various points (for and against). Because I love playing with Sherlockian research, even if I’m not that awesome at it. To preface this, I have been a Sherlock Holmes fan for twenty-five years, since my father gave [...]
Image via Wikipedia Before I start my latest installment of “Head to Keyboard,” I want to tell you a quick story. A Quick Story A while back, I made some comments on Facebook and Twitter agreeing with a writer who doesn’t want people to give him their manuscripts to critique. I got some pushback from a couple of my peers saying [...]
I didn’t realize how crazy busy I have been and will be, but I just looked at my calendar and noticed it was full of stars activities. Thursday night was the office D&D game. Friday through Sunday was a special LARP event I had been organizing for several months. Tonight I have some time to [...]
It’s another edition of "Head To Keyboard," my irregular column of writing advice. This time, Chuck Wendig has called me out. Specifically, he said this: Eddy, I know you have thoughts on what makes a good pitch. C’mon. Share with the class? He speaks, and I obey. After two years of manning the White Wolf [...]