Near the beginning of Veilpiercer, our plucky hero Cabalynne takes an elevator into the bowels of a secret complex hidden under the Denver airport, joining a group of employees who will be disassembling obsolete equipment for giant tech corporation Arrgle. Chapter 4 begins: “Fifty Recyclopath employees were led into the Arrgle complex through a maze…
Congratulations! You finished the first draft of your novel or memoir. Everyone has a different writing process. Some authors forge ahead as they write their first draft, never looking back, putting notes aside about plot points that will need to be cleaned up later. I’ve heard there are others (cough) who obsessively read the work…
Meta is taking us forward to a world where augmented reality glasses are well understood and useful. “You’re crazy!” I hear you say. “Meta has moved on. Mark Zuckerberg looked foolish when he talked about the ‘metaverse.’ He claimed he was investing in the long-term future of AR but all he did was throw billions…
Let’s talk about writing a novel. Jim and I sat down to write Uncommon Scents three years ago. We thought we knew what that meant. We had a firm understanding that it would require a lot of words arranged sequentially. We knew words. We hoped that was enough. But then we remembered: punctuation! We stocked…