Author: JRVogt

I’m not turning this blog into a week-by-week accounting of our wedding prep, I promise you. I mean, considering it’s a little something of significance in my life, I might mention it as the day gets closer, yah know. Anyways, with this weekend being has hectic as it is, I’ve…

So we’re in Colorado now, and all general weather announcements are saying: Warning! FAST MOVING BLIZZARD… We are now faced with the challenge of making it to all the potential wedding venues to check out the grounds while the wind howls and the snow piles on. Plus we’ve got to…

I don’t honestly remember where I first heard about this book. It’s one of those titles that danced around in my brain for almost a year. I think I read about it in Neil Gaiman’s blog, and then came across it on a random search through Amazon.com, and then somehow…

I once wondered if things like cultural sensitivity and political correctness were getting out of hand. Now I know they’ve not only gotten out of hand, they escaped into the lab, mated with the mutant chickens, spawned deadly, acid-spewing offspring and are tunneling into the earth’s core where they will…

I often troll about looking for the tales of those who have long ventured off into the wilderness of a full-time, or even part-time writing career. These are brave souls in whose footsteps I someday hope to follow. So I seek out their diaries, journals, blogs, drunken spoutings, etc. in…

I’ve found that Nick Mamatas has made his 2004 novel Move Under Ground freely available as a PDF download. I have yet to read it, but I’ve got the file and plan to start scanning it to see if it catches my fancy. Who can turn down a free novel,…

Soaping a Meditative Foot: Notes for a Young Writer Read each point and don’t skim. Take at least a minute or two between each thought to actually digest what it’s saying. A few that particularly struck me are: 4) Stories, novels, and poems are neither idea nor opinion. They are…

I signed up with the Amazon Associates program, which gives me an easy way to link books and such to the website and blog. There is a new subsection to the Links page now dedicated to book recommendations, mostly from titles that I’ve read over the past six months, or…

One of the interesting conundrums a fantasy writer faces is trying to make an impossible reality seem as realistic as possible. Now, a science fiction writer deals more with making a reality that either hasn’t happened yet, on the technological scale, or is more an alternate to ours. Either way,…

It actually has nothing to do with writing. The big surprise today is that I got engaged last night. It involved snow, a hollow book, and us getting our butts frozen, but myself and Jenelle are now engaged. Now all the fun begins as we plan the actual day. At…