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Blog postSandwich artistry may appear to have settled into standard tropes and tired formats, but scientific curiosity, creativity, and the urge to experiment will not be denied. In recent days, social media has been buzzing over the Sandwich Guy, a would-be revolutionary sandwich artist who posted his “sandwich business model” on reddit and asked for commentary.
You can imagine how that went.
Now, I’m no sandwich artist, but I’ve put in some time on the front lines, I’ve made the roun -
Blog postKatya tagged along with me today on what I thought would be the most tedious of errands, cancelling our comcast service. The last time I was at that office (granted, it had been a few years), I waited in line for over an hour. Today, however, the rep called me right over and had me out in three minutes.
An unexpected gift from the gods, unstructured free time! Out of the house, to boot. What on earth to do? Well, just down the road was Half-Price Books.
“Fine, I’ll go,” Katya -
Blog postAudio is on the rise. You see (hear?) it everywhere, from surging audiobook sales to everyone and their brother now having a podcast. If you’re a writer looking to publish, you’re very likely going to be involved in some sort of audio production of your work at some point.
(a quick aside, this fact hasn’t eluded me, either– it’s all in the plan. Just that life thing keeps on getting in the way.)
Case in point, my writing group, TL;DR Press, has joined the fray and hacked our w -
Blog postI’ve had two five-terabyte drives for several years now. I’ve used one as the main backup and media server for the house. Pictures, movies, backups of current and ancient drives from long ago, everything went onto this drive. The second one has been sitting, unused, for years now, as it was always a little too much effort to hook it up and backup the data from the first. However, I recently snagged a solid router with two USB share points available, and so I set both drives up on it. One had
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Blog postMy current project is a collection of narrative stories that are meant to be spoken aloud as much as read to oneself.
Reading aloud is important for writers on several levels. First, hearing what you’ve written has a way of highlighting awkward language, bad flow, or ideas that just don’t work. It’s a good practice for editing. Second, audiobooks are growing in popularity, and are an important part of the discussion of any publication track these days. Even if you don’t record your ow -
Blog postThe Hallmark holidays were never that much of a deal in my family growing up, and my GAF level as a father toward them has been consistently low as well. Sure, a card is nice. Sure, a small gift is nice. I’m happy with a “happy Father’s Day,” now let’s go about the business of the day.
But this is my first Father’s Day without my own father. He died in January. The situation definitely lends itself to some introspection.
Oh, God, I hear you cry, Please no more introspection ab -
Blog postBetween work, family, school, activities, and everything else, I have no time for anything anymore. And a corresponding intolerance for interruption has set in as well.
Today a guy hawking his lawn maintenance business spotted our overgrown grass and decided we might want to hear his pitch.
His first mistake: he asked Katya to speak with the man of the house. Katya caught me in the middle of figuring out a software security issue of some complexity; she told me there was a guy -
Blog postI put up an author page on Amazon: https://amazon.com/author/penfold. I’m nearing completion on a few more stories, and may put some up on Amazon or Medium.
Also, it occurred to me as I was casting about for any kind of decent picture of me, that I just don’t have any. They simply don’t exist. I may just have to make do with memes. For now, anyway, I went with the one below.
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Blog postTLDR Press has released its fourth anthology, the family-themed Kindred. It features 26 stories and poems (only a few poems, actually) by emergent writers. Proceeds go to benefit the Kempe Foundation, which fights child abuse.
This anthology is all the more special and personal to me, as I was one of the curators, and I have a piece in it as well. And while I am admittedly biased, I also think it’s a damn fine collection.
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Blog postHave a read of this NPR article on Inuit parents and kids and using storytelling to teach about anger. Aside from being a topic of interest to parents, adoptive parents, and society in general, it’s particularly of interest to storytellers. Which means everybody.
We talk about the magic of stories–escape, fantasy, morals, lessons, thoughts, examples, questions posed, warnings given, inspiration planted, and so on–it shows that stories are how we relate to each other and to the world.
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