2010-08-01

Currently, I have five core, creative properties to use for crossovers. I often wonder what could be so dire to cause them all to team up.

2010-08-02

Two properties belong to the SpaceStation Colt Imprint. Two belong to the Dope KPC Imprint. One is free-floating and resides within both.

2010-08-03

So characters can go intra- and inter- imprint. I won't overuse this by any means. Picking my spots has always been key to timely writing.

2010-08-04

Wishful thinking. I have a habit of looking ahead to future projects before the current ones complete - a byproduct of interlinking series.

2010-08-05

It's where dreaming big meets planning ahead, but sometimes I forget that I need to wake up and execute on the projects which are before me.

2010-08-06

A momentary lapse at worst - a period of motivation at best, working for the future becomes a subtle inspiration which pushes me at present.

2010-08-07

Living for the future isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes that needed, creative boost plays a role in supplementing a faltering confidence.

2010-08-08

Writer's block is normally blamed for gumming up creative works, but I've always had ideas. The confidence to move forward was what got me.

2010-08-09

Why that is happens to be irrelevant, so it's the resolution which is pertinent here. Those future ideas carried me over the finish line.

2010-08-10

Whatever works, right? The boost to my confidence at present came from the promise of the incredible storytelling potential for the future.

2010-08-11

Neither project suffered because one beget the other with the future dangled as an inaccessible carrot until the present was made right.

2010-08-12

It worked. I had SSC2 written with an opportunity to write SSC3, but my momentum was soon blunted when I sat down to edit those 740+ pages.

2010-08-13

If ever there's a case against writing long novels, having to edit them and meet their impending deadlines are reasons enough to support it.

2010-08-14

always had an appreciation for the task of editing since having been saddled with the process, but he needed to better cement a technique.

2010-08-15

SSC2 offered ample chances to test out a few methods of editing, so I shook off the pain and went to work with my dictionary and thesaurus.

2010-08-16

settled on a hybrid method which included reading the text silently while speaking the dialogue aloud to solidify the flow and find errors.

2010-08-17

Usually, I'm fairly happy with the edits because my words better convey the meaning which was intended. But there's no denying the fatigue.

2010-08-18

The process is slow but thorough. It leads me to wonder about a possible correlation between that, speech, the written word, and thought.

2010-08-19

Basically, in both art and life, I've found that I can speak faster than I write, write faster than I think, and think faster than I speak.

2010-08-20

What this speaks toward is an almost humbling (if not so introspective) bout of honesty which I've used to help improve my creativity.

2010-08-21

As I've gotten older, my creative styles have also matured. I now know that the mighty pen can cause writers to get chopped up by swords.

2010-08-22

In my past, I've said/written all kinds of things. This current creative phase is not so much about toning that down as it is focusing it.

2010-08-23

Political correctness often has a negative connotation, but there is nothing wrong with civility in discourse - except the absence thereof.

2010-08-24

won't just create something and not care about if it happens to offend or create something just to offend, but he cannot please everybody.

2010-08-25

From a business perspective, I never want to go out of my way to offend people, but creatively, I've started to cater to different tastes.

2010-08-26

Shock value went out of the window when I became a role model. Knowing my audience and delivering the appropriate content is not pandering.

2010-08-27

Much of my written work is R-rated, but I have a comic book which is PG, and I'm contemplating a third SSC spinoff for kids that is rated G.

2010-08-28

Those who've read SpaceStation Colt and saw that last status update might be astonished, but think back. I have the perfect character.. :)

2010-08-29

So with SSC2 officially and Criticality almost officially in the eBooks, it's time that I turned my attention to SSC3 and other projects.

2010-08-30

Whenever I begin a new project, there's always this moment of uncertainty. Actually, that feeling comes eerily as I conclude the last.

2010-08-31

It's hard to pull out of the creative mindset either during or at the conclusion of a project. That end feeling is of relief but also fear.