February 2013

Shelf Life – Flightless Falcon Still Glides Pretty Well

GDB February 28, 2013 No Comments

(Since I want to keep this blog with some sort of momentum but have been lacking the time to do anything about it for the past few weeks, enjoy this book review from an earlier, temporary blog that I had going for a class, in which I pretended I was a dragon with a computer, edited to remove any reference to me being a dragon with a computer, as I am in actuality not one of those.)

Flightless Falcon is a light DAW fantasy by Mickey Zucker Reichert that first came out in paperback in July of 2001. Set in your typical fantasy land – lightly coated in magic but sans any fantastical creatures such as dragons, elves, dwarves, and the like – it follows the sad, luckless exploits of an ex-miner named Tamison made useless after a cave in kills his father and brother and leaves him trapped deep in the mine for a few days.

Off The Shelf: Media & Miscellany Writing

Write Through the Pain

GDB February 11, 2013 No Comments

I keep realizing, forgetting, and re-realizing that the first step to any writing project is forcing yourself to start.

I love writing, but even after more than a decade of doing it for both work and fun, I still have to drag myself to the page or screen & force my hands to move at first. I’m not sure why – maybe because writing is an industrious hobby and I default to leisure when left otherwise unemployed. Maybe because the acts of creation and production so impress me that to begin either of them myself on any scale feels, for a moment at least, like a grand undertaking, the beginning of a long journey. Maybe because my perfectionist outlook tends toward the nitpicky at times, and so commencing a thing grates a bit when there is always so much more that I could do to prepare first.