I never actually watched this show, despite being in college when this first aired. I do remember watching reruns of the original cartoon series, though. I never quite decided if I liked Space Ghost or not.

I don't put much thought into names. I don't personally believe they're that important to the character. If it takes me more than 30 seconds to find a name, I'm irritated. I've even changed names the night before publishing. LOL.

In this series, Archie. He's a former math professor whose parents named him "Archimedes". I just liked the name "Archie".

In my previous series, there's Doyle and Jen. Jen was a placeholder name, but it stuck. Doyle was inspired by a pack of Hoyle playing cards.

I spent far too many seconds wondering how high quality your drone camera was....LOL.

Nah. Teens are easy, especially at my stage. (28 years doing this.) Yeah, there’s a metric ton of “are you KIDDING me?”, and every week feels like some fresh new hell, but I actually like teenagers. Besides…free character research!

That’s my favorite time to write, but as a teacher…I can’t do that very often. I’m up at 6 am to go deal with teenagers all day, so I can’t write until 4 am. Wish I could, though.

P.L. Travers
C.S. Lewis
Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child
Robert Jordan
Susan Cooper

*making, not maintaining.

I don’t skip prologues, but I don’t see the point of maintaining a prologue. If it’s needed information, make it chapter one. If it’s needed information that feels disconnected, I prefer to work it in during the story.

No idea; I'm a pantser, so I don't even know what the next sentence is going to be! LOL.

#wipsnips #writesky

“Oh! Bode, quick question: has Archie always been totally oblivious to, like, any kind of hints?”

“Yes,” Bode said immediately. “I’ve never seen anybody that spectacularly unable to understand subtlety. You have to be very direct, no matter how mundane the topic.”

Luckily, we have great air conditioning! I'm a native Floridian--been here almost 50 years now--so I know how to avoid the heat when I need to.

I feel for you guys. We’ll be on the opposite side, dealing with record heat for this time of year. I think they said 85 degrees for the forecast.

Still better than snow, though. Give me the heat any day!

Stay safe!

If I have music going, I will either start typing the lyrics or inventing lyrics and then typing those. Annoys the crap out of me! LOL.

Unfortunately, no, I don't. I never associate my stories with songs or mood boards or any of those things. I write in complete silence.

But I'm glad for those who do and who find that perfect song or picture or whatever.

My wife was never really a He-Man or She-Ra person, but she thought this looked awesome. (She was more a G.I. Joe girl.) I, of course, cannot wait!

The Return of the King With Big Naturals.

I know that feeling! My debut novel took me 13 years to write and publish. The sequel took 1 year, then the final book in the trilogy took almost 3. I then spent a couple years not writing anything until I wrote my 4th book in two weeks last summer.

So it's famine, a whole lot of feasting, famine..

That's basically how it goes for me. I either get a lot done or nothing at all. I wrote my 4th book in 13 days last summer. (65K words). Spent 4 weeks revising and then published.

Previous book took me almost 3 years to write and publish.

Feast or famine. Every time. LOL.

Feels great, right? I haven't been able to really write much for months, and over the last 24 hours, my brain decided to cooperate and let me rip out over 10K words.

Of course, I'm sure by tomorrow it'll be back to not cooperating with me, but fingers crossed!

#writingcommunity #writing #writesky

My brain deigned to allow me to write this weekend, so I'm nearing the 10K words over the past 24 hours. I can live with that.

Now, if I can just convince my brain to let me keep writing for the next week or two, I'll have the first draft finished.

I actually wrote a post for my website about this a week or so ago. Many of the names in my trilogy were placeholders that just turned into the actual names. I don't put the same emphasis on names that many writers do. I really don't think the names are important at all to the story.

But do they have the votes to override a veto? Because we all know he'd veto that in a heartbeat.

I don’t have the time or energy to research ideas for a class about which I know nothing. Sometimes ChatGPT is really helpful with lab ideas, and sometimes it’s not.

I use it all the time for help with lab ideas for my science classes…since I have no clue about teaching science, the classes were just dropped on me, and we don’t have the supplies to do 90% of the labs that the curriculum is based on. I teach 6 different courses.

Nothing. I only create what I need for the story as I write the story. If it doesn’t appear on page, it doesn’t exist in my head.

Just binged Season 1 of Creature Commandos. Been meaning to watch it for months. Really enjoyed it.

So for him, "weird" basically means "normal".

Archie is a human working in a magical library. His coworkers? An elf who always “knows a guy,” a dwarf who expects a good insult every chance you get, a lederhosen-loving Sasquatch, and a relentlessly cheerful pixie. Their boss? A tiny book dragon with an insatiable need to hoard books.