2/11/12
Had a migraine attack in the early afternoon hours. Took a dose of Treximet and napped for 90 minutes. Headache subsided.
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Author Archives: Bob Evans
Additional political thoughts
There’s no doubt now that Rick Santorum has become the latest, last, Not-Romney to capture to attention of the conservative base. This I think will swing the next couple of contests from arguments about who funded what and who spent what to the social conservative issues of gay, abortion, and contraceptives. Continue reading
Book Review: Blameless
The third book of the Parasol Protectorate series opens with a disgraced Alexia, once again in her mother’s home, living with her step half-sisters, exiled from Woosley Castle and her love husband Lord Conall Maccon.
Desperate to clear her name, Alexia delves into the nature of the soulless and the roguish
history of her late father. Pursued by assassins and vampire of ill repute, Alexia’s quest takes her across the continent until she is confronted by Italians armed with pesto. With solutions to former mysteries becoming mysteries in their own right, Alexia discovers that there is more to her father and herself than she had suspected. Continue reading
The Tools Affect The Craftsman.
So I’m now two weeks into my experimentation with the writing software suite, Scriveners. I’m just about to start actual prose composition for chapter one of Command and Control and discovering in the process just how much the tool can change the writer and his process. Continue reading
The Race That Keeps On Giving
Just when I thought the Republican Primary race had settled down to the terribly boring, utterly predictable, and fatalistic finale end game, Rick Santorum goes and proves that the ‘Not Romney’ votes still has life. Continue reading
This one is for Brad
Thoughts on Harry Potter Movies pt 2
So after a pleasant Saturday watching the Harry potter years 1-4, I retired early in the evening to rise bright and early for the next three years covered in four films. We started fairly close to on time, something I consider to be quite remarkable, diving into Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix. Continue reading
Thoughts on Harry Potter movies – part 1
So this weekend as my Harry PotterMarathonWeekend. ON Saturday we watch the first four film and on Sunday my Friends, Sweetie-wife, and I finished by watching the final four films. Each day it was about a ten hour journey watching the movies and each day presented its own unique challenges and disruptions. Continue reading
The Importance Of Names
I’m not going to discuss using names a symbolic clue as to the nature of a character or story, though that is an important and very difficult aspect to naming things for an author. Instead I’m going to rant a bit about something that irritates me endlessly.
I hate it when a writer, or writers, skip out on naming something that really should have a name. This happens most often in film and television, but the unforced error can occur in any kind of writing, regardless of medium or genre. Continue reading
Adventures with Scriveners
For this week I have been working with a new piece of software as I work on my new novel, Command and Control. This software package, Scriveners has been developed as a tool for writers, particularly of novels. It is much more than just a word processing program, but it is a tool for collating and organizing the data that you can generate when writing your tome. Continue reading