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Sean Valdrow
Dynamite. TNT. Bangalore torpedoes. RDX, SEMTEX, C4. PETN. Pentolite. COMP A, COMP B. Octol. TATP. Blackpowder.
Bore the hole into the block, pack it with a charge, BLOW THAT BLOCK TO HELL.
Rush the breach firing everything you got and who wants to live forever?
Bore the hole into the block, pack it with a charge, BLOW THAT BLOCK TO HELL.
Rush the breach firing everything you got and who wants to live forever?
Sean Valdrow
It makes me less crazy. Considerably less crazy.
Sean Valdrow
Be not afear'd, for thou art mighty.
Persevere.
Make time, don't expect to find it.
Ask yourself: what is your real set of priorities. Judge what you will really achieve by the answer and dump all the fluff.
Throw hand grenades at the Sticky People who want to glom onto you and try to pull you down or keep you from your greatness. Seriously, they're not your friends if they do not want the best for what is best in you. Dump 'em, ASAP. Life is too short to be mired in Sticky People. If that leaves you with no one, you are much better off. New people will appear, ones who want you to be great. You will know when they read your stuff and say, 'fabulous! what happens next? Tell me more!' Just one such person will fill the void more fully than ten thousand legions of Sticky People.
Persevere.
Make time, don't expect to find it.
Ask yourself: what is your real set of priorities. Judge what you will really achieve by the answer and dump all the fluff.
Throw hand grenades at the Sticky People who want to glom onto you and try to pull you down or keep you from your greatness. Seriously, they're not your friends if they do not want the best for what is best in you. Dump 'em, ASAP. Life is too short to be mired in Sticky People. If that leaves you with no one, you are much better off. New people will appear, ones who want you to be great. You will know when they read your stuff and say, 'fabulous! what happens next? Tell me more!' Just one such person will fill the void more fully than ten thousand legions of Sticky People.
Sean Valdrow
At present, I have the first run of a sequel to The Rooster Rider a little over half complete. Tentatively titled, The Rooster Rider: GutRipper's Revenge, it picks up some time after the end of things in the first book. We follow the main characters, and a few new ones, as they chase after the weasels who abduct Thomas as part of an elaborate scheme of revenge. Things turn in ways no one expects, GutRipper abandoned he goes mad, and Thomas acquires some most curious small books of wicked and sorcerous lore...
After that, I have Edward the Educated Octopus: S Is For Sheriff-topus. I have another in that line started, Edward the Educated Octopus: B Is for Bat-O-Pus. I have a first run of Katie the Kite Girl, a first effort at a poetical ballad telling the tale of a mischievous small girl who straps on her roller skates and lashes a kite to her back on a windy day.
Lots to do; I'll have to illustrate the Edward the Educated Octopus books and Katie the Kite Girl myself. I'd best get cracking with the art lessons!
After that, I have Edward the Educated Octopus: S Is For Sheriff-topus. I have another in that line started, Edward the Educated Octopus: B Is for Bat-O-Pus. I have a first run of Katie the Kite Girl, a first effort at a poetical ballad telling the tale of a mischievous small girl who straps on her roller skates and lashes a kite to her back on a windy day.
Lots to do; I'll have to illustrate the Edward the Educated Octopus books and Katie the Kite Girl myself. I'd best get cracking with the art lessons!
Sean Valdrow
Writing is DISCIPLINE. It's turning on the computer and firing up Word even when you do not feel inspired.
Inspiration is for amateurs; more correctly, sit down and start writing. When you do, the Muse will show up. You have to move the stones to clear the path for the Muse, and once do, once your Muse has arrived, time vanishes and worlds made with words are built.
Sit down and start typing If you do, "inspiration" will happen like magic.
Inspiration is for amateurs; more correctly, sit down and start writing. When you do, the Muse will show up. You have to move the stones to clear the path for the Muse, and once do, once your Muse has arrived, time vanishes and worlds made with words are built.
Sit down and start typing If you do, "inspiration" will happen like magic.
Sean Valdrow
The answer to this is in the cover art: the knight on the rooster. It is a bit of medieval marginalia and struck my fancy. I used it as the start to a writing exercise, an inspiration to create a fiction piece. The logic, if we dare abuse the word so badly, went something like this: Ok...there's a knight riding a chicken. Either the that's one big bird OR the knight was shrunk. If the knight was tiny, how'd he get that way? Must've been an evil witch's spell.... From there, I started writing and just didn't stop.
One does not know how to write a novel until one has written a novel. And that book is how I learned to write a novel.
One does not know how to write a novel until one has written a novel. And that book is how I learned to write a novel.
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